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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
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings change. Sometimes we change because of our circumstances and experiences.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economics is a good degree to have but the subject is very theoretical at Cambridge and I found it frustrating that you can't apply a lot of the models to particular circumstances.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite indicators of the near-term trend for the economy is auto sales, since folks tend to buy a car when they are feeling optimistic about their financial circumstances.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lucky I had signposts in my life. At important times, I got pointed in the right direction by particular circumstances.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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.