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“The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.”

Ifs World Turns Circumstances Organization Permit Reformers

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.”

Different Certain Turns Individual Events Objects Circumstances Survival Various Wagers

Book:July's People

Source: July's People

“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

“The way in which I know Christianity is true is first and foremost is the basis of the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. And this gives me self-authenticating means of knowing Christianity is true wholly apart from the evidence. And therefore, even if in some historically contingent circumstances the evidence that I have available to me should turn against Christianity, I do not think that controverts the witness of the Holy Spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Giving Should Firsts Heart Mean Self Spirit Turns Christianity Knowing My Heart Circumstances Holy Evidence Bases Give Me Available Witness Holy Spirit

Author:William Lane Craig

“The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.”

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.”

Looks Turns Realizing Doors Events Circumstances Curious Hinges Great Events

Book:Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)

“I too have learned this in my experiences with the Spirit of God. Every situation can be redeemed and turned into exactly the preparation we require for a fullness of joy-to the extent of ourfaith in Christ's redemptive power. To that extent, the very circumstances we may have cursed will turn out to be our schooling for salvation.”

May Joy Spirit Turns Christ Situation Circumstances Salvation Preparation Fullness Cursed Schooling Spirit Of God Redeemed

Author:C. Terry Warner

“Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism.”

People Thinking Knows Different Sometimes Reason Turns Opportunity Challenges Situation Worst Circumstances Optimism Good Things Unusual Worst Things Outlook

Author:S. Truett Cathy

“[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.”

Ifs Want Made Enough Facts Form Artist Turns Universe Simple Teacher Talent Circumstances Died Rewards Ruins Pretending Nuts Ambitious Wasting Your Time Migrate Eugene O Neill

Author:William Monahan

“We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.”

May Hard Facts Happens Pain Purpose Turns Circumstances Victim Things Happen Cruelty Bitter Hardship Hard Things

Author:Amy Purdy

“There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.”

People Way Firsts May Real Ends Self Turns Interest Sin Responsibility Circumstances Blame Mere Pity God Love Justify Repentance Confession Shifting Self Interest Self Pity Cover Ups

Author:Timothy Keller

“The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet...”

Wells Persons Doe Turns Missing Circumstances Safe Leaving Rays Doomed Unlikely Ray Of Hope

Author:Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Character Would Be Turns Fiction Journey New York Circumstances Pages Sitting Very Good Metaphor Heavy Contemporary Mainstream Thinking About Life

Author:Karan Bajaj

“The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.”

“It's really interesting - I wanted to become an actress when I was young because I wanted to do romantic comedy. And I did a lot of comedies very early on, but then my career took kind of a left turn with Joss Whedon, and I discovered that doing genre work is actually more interesting as an actor, because the given circumstances are more extreme. And it really is creatively more challenging.”

Kind Wanted Young Turns Actors Left Given Challenges Interesting Careers Comedy Circumstances Extremes Actresses Genre Really Interesting

Author:Julie Benz

“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”

Trying Real Reality Turns Fiction Circumstances Real Life Copies Carbon Epiphany Belittle Tehran

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true, it is spiritually unsafe to attend public schools. Look back over the history of education to the turn of the century and the beginning of the educational philosophies, pragmatism and humanism were the early ones, and they branched out into a number of other philosophies which have led us now into a circumstance where our schools are producing the problems that we face.”

“Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.”

Happens Turns Decision Our Lives Circumstances Things Happen Bad Things Bad Things Happen When Bad Things Happen

Author:Joel Osteen

“Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.”

Life Book Turns Culture Circumstances Down And Turn-on

Author:Inga Muscio

“A long time ago, Trinity and I made a list of types of guys you should never date. We add to it every now and then. It includes things like never date a guy whose computer costs more than his car (you'll never get him to pay attention to you except over instant messages), never date a guy who has a pet lizard (he's probably into weird stuff in bed) and never under any circumstances go on a second date with a guy who says the word "married" on the first date (he'll turn out to be a mama's boy or a religious type)”

Source: I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It

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