Circumstances Quotes - Page 37

• The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.

  Tillie Olsen

  Writing, Responsibility, Years

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.48, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, People, Forgiving

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.476, Penguin

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• It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Important, Encounters

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.673, Penguin

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• I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

  Tennessee Williams

  Taken, Hero, Believe

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

  Florence Nightingale

  Heaven, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of Heaven

  Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.18, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

  Florence Nightingale

  Organization, World, Permit

  Florence Nightingale (2008). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.

  Fay Weldon

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, Lakes, Meals

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.

  Marianne Williamson

  Powerful, Vision, Said

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Characteristics, Prominent

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• Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hero, Men, Light

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Attitude, Doe

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Spiritual Life”, p.1, Quest Books

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• Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.

  Karen Horney

  Crush, May, Helpful

  Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.240, Routledge

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• The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness.

  Arielle Ford

  Believe, Law Of Attraction, People

  Arielle Ford (2009). “The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

  George Saunders

  Dancing, Fiction, Gravity

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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  You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Might, Able, Response

  Address at the Republican National Convention, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

  Shawn Achor

  Individual Choice, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• You can poke fun at some pretty difficult circumstances, and it's just a way to pop the bubble. I don't do that thing onstage usually, but offstage sometimes I might.

  Brian Regan

  Fun, Might, Way

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• I just share my story in hopes that some people out there who have gone through different circumstances might be encouraged and inspired that even in their circumstances to know that there is nothing God can't change.

  Nick Vujicic

  People, Different, Gone

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• When God doesn't change a circumstance, He can change our hearts in knowing that He can change all things for the good.

  Nick Vujicic

  Heart, Knowing, All Things

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The joy of the Lord is my strength, knowing that He is with me, knowing that He will never leave me, knowing that He is bigger than any circumstance, and that He loves us. It's not about Nick being happy but Nick's trust in God. It is not that everything is going smoothly. It is not that Nick never cries or Nick is never fearful anymore.

  Nick Vujicic

  Knowing, Joy, Trust In God

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

  Maurice Sendak

  Real, Artist, World

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.

  Nicolas Cage

  Children, Real, Believe

  "Knowing - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.

  David Bezmozgis

  Thinking, Tough, Interiors

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• But the day is spent;
  And stars are kindling in the firmament,
  To us how silent--though like ours, perchance,
  Busy and full of life and circumstance.

  Samuel Rogers

  Stars, Busy, Silent

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.204

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