Circumstances Quotes - Page 18

• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

  P. T. Barnum

  Clothes, Dresses, Income

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.

  William Cowper Brann

  Religious, Ideas, Political

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• When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  War, Unique, Hot

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• I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

  Patrick Duffy

  Happiness, Mean, Achieve

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• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  Patrick Duffy

  Karma, Son, Two

  "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.

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• It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Christian, Laughing, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government.

  Jan Brewer

  Believe, Government, America

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 26, 2012.

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• On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.

  Billy Campbell

  Mean, Land, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Alive, Pants, Thrive

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• My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.

  Julian Castro

  Grandmother, Opportunity, Generations

  Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Thinking, Views, Mind

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• 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.

  James Badge Dale

  Book, Character, Perfect

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• Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Brother, New York, Ideas

  "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.

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• My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

  Ted Dekker

  Christian, Light, People

  "Best-selling author shaped by cannibals, Christianity" by Eric Marrapodi, www.cnn.com. April 28, 2009.

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• People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

  Charles Frazier

  People, Interest, Isolated

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• Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.

  Isabelle Fuhrman

  Real, Twilight, Games

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• I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

  Sarah Ferguson

  Divorce, Want

  "Sarah Ferguson: Diana, the Queen and I" by Nancy Collins, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 19, 2011.

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• I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down to earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of their own lives and have never forgotten the people and organizations that helped them dream bigger than their circumstances should have allowed.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mother, Dream, Dad

  "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Mark K. Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.

  Joan Allen

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

  "The passion project" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2005.

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• I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

  Grant Bowler

  Guy, Doe, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.

  Tom Freston

  Feelings, Minorities, Sometimes

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• Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as protection in case you have a terrible accident or your car is stolen. You don't use homeowners' insurance to pay your electricity and water bills; you have it as protection in case a fire or other catastrophic event produces a large expense. Obviously, any insurance policy that promises to cover every small, ordinary expense is going to be much more expensive than one that covers only extraordinary expenses.

  Harry Browne

  Fire, Oil, Car

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• Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. For example, there are circumstances when it is advisable to introduce, elaborate and defend ad hoc hypotheses, or hypotheses which contradict well-established and generally accepted experimental results, or hypotheses whose content is smaller than the content of the existing and empirically adequate alternative, or self-inconsistent hypotheses, and so on.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Opposites, Self

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of the future. We are afraid of things that have not yet happened, but which if they did might bring us pain, suffering, or some other discomfort - or stand in the way of some future contentment. And we are afraid that circumstances that are already causing us displeasure may continue in the future.

  Russell Peters

  Pain, Essence, Suffering

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• Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Meaning Of Life, Science And Religion, Courses

  Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.105, The Floating Press

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