Circumstances Quotes - Page 5

• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

  Ayrton Senna

  Thinking, Racing, Limits

  "Ayrton Senna: Racing Is in My Blood". Documentary, 1992.

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• Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Jealous, Purpose, Noble

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• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rain, Years, Historical

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• I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

  Ben Chandler

  Being Happy, Hands, Political

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• Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Artist, Journey

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.

  Kato Kaelin

  Heart, Cocky, World

  "Only in America". Interview with Andrew Solomon, andrewsolomon.com. September 1, 1995.

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• I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Thinking, Want, Corny

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• If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

  John Drinkwater

  Imperfect, Ifs, Values

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

  Charles Babbage

  Law, Rewards, England

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.13

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• Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Consistency, Details, Found

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12

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• I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

  Camille Claudel

  Thank You, Two, President

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• The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Memories, Eight, Years

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Animal, Majority, Bats

  Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.156, Modern Library

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• There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

  Edward Zwick

  Movie, Inspiring, People

  "Blood Diamond: Interview with Director Ed Zwick". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. November 14, 2006.

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• A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

  Alice Duer Miller

  Mother, Children, Wall

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• It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mistake, Israel, Doe

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• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

  Clive Bell

  Religious, Art, Mean

  'Art' (1914) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

  Irvine Welsh

  People, Humanity, Sometimes

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• I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

  Suzanne Collins

  Anime, Pokemon, Birth

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.432

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• The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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• I have a basic philosophy that I've tried to follow during my coaching career. Whether you're winning or losing, it's important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

  Cotton Fitzsimmons

  Being Yourself, Philosophy, Winning

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• It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 21 Apr. 1803

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