Circumstances Quotes - Page 15

• It is very difficult to know exactly what good should come out of a particular situation. To attempt to manipulate circumstances so your idea of good can come about, is to let the ego play God-and that, as you know, can and does backfire.

  Neem Karoli Baba

  Play, Ideas, Ego

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• Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

  Charles Simmons

  Witty, Order, Expression

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.3

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• I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Night, Heartache, Littles

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• Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Believe, Joy

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• In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Advice, First Impression, Firsts

  R. F. Christian, Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 1: 1847-1894”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• There's a way out of every situation.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Way, Situation

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina (Movie Tie-in Edition): Official Tie-in Edition Including the screenplay by Tom Stoppard”, p.508, Vintage

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• Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Sex, Children, Order

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• The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Honor, Foundation

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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• It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Blow, Wind, May

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• Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friends, Self

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• The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Views, Permit

  Alexander Hamilton (1810). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Most Important Official Reports: An Improved Edition of the Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788; and Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, Written in 1793 ...”, p.306, New York : Williams and Whitings

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• The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Flying, Intellectual

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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Song, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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• Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Individual, Values

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• You're not limited by your circumstances only by your imagination.

  Paris Barclay

  Imagination

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• The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances.

  Valerie Steele

  Powerful, Self, Looks

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• No matter what the circumstances, we Christians should keep our heads. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. It is a dismal thing to see a son of heaven cringe in terror before the sons of earth.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Son, Heaven

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• You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Possibility, Knows, Can Do

  O Magazine, January 2007.

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• In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Country, Queens, Government

  Lajos Kossuth (1851). “Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.77

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• Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Power, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Numbers, Giving, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.44

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• Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

  Mark Twain

  Fighting, Thinking, Government

  Mark Twain (2010). “What Is Man?”, p.85, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

  John Updike

  Moving, Heart, History

  JOHN UPDIKE (1965). “ASSORTED PROSE”

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• It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Civilization, Mind, Example

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Believe, Animal, Bird

  "Let’s Face It: There Is No Such Thing as Humane Meat" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februry 26, 2013.

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