- Negative
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
- European Countries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren't calling the police for any reason.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are exceptional schools in many of our most disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout the Commonwealth. Proving they can get it done for kids, no matter what their circumstances.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
- Flourishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order that punishment should not be an act of violence perpetrated by one or many upon a private citizen, it is essential that it should be public, speedy, necessary, the minimum possible in the given circumstances, proportionate to the crime, and determined by the law.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
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.