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- Nov 07, 2020
Circumstances Quotes
Most Famous Circumstances Quotes of All Time!
Circumstances, this small collection argues, rarely stay predictable - reform often surfaces developments nobody anticipated at the outset. That same unpredictability shapes tough calls in diplomacy, where pressing one issue too hard can sometimes backfire on the very cause it means to help, a tension also explored in our Life collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.
- Crowd
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
- Nov 07, 2020
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
- Nov 07, 2020
The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
- Nov 07, 2020
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
There's a broader lesson too: firm approaches make sense in some circumstances, but no single strategy solves every global problem. For more on adapting to what life brings, see our Change collection.