- Candle
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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.
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- Coherence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult process of choice which ends, often, in an eclectic idiosyncrasy.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
- Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under any circumstances, if I had to return to Turkey and face the gallows, I will not blink an eye.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
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.