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Tag Name "Circumstance" (371)

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Man liveth from hour to hour, and knoweth not what may happen Influences circle him on all sides, and yet must he answer for his actions: For the being that is master of himself, bendeth events to his will, But a slave to selfish passions is the wavering creature of circumstance.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Michael Heseltine
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Here is the difference between hope with Jesus and hope without Jesus. Hope without Jesus is waiting for your position or circumstance to change. To be waiting and hoping that someday things aren't how they are now. There is nothing wrong with waiting for a miracle, but some miracles don't always come. Life without Jesus is a life without purpose.
Nick Vujicic
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The political topicality of my October paintings means almost nothing to me, but in many reviews it is the first or only thing that arouses interest, and the response to the pictures varies according to current political circumstance. I find this rather a distraction.
Gerhard Richter
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The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.
Frederick Lenz
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You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours.
Clara Schumann
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To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
Oliver Goldsmith
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If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.
M. Russell Ballard
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
Pat Robertson
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Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.
Nicky Gumbel
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We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.
David Hume
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Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.
Richard Wurmbrand
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I was the little guy who knew how to tie a necktie. It came from having absentee parents. They were tremendously loving and caring people who, by circumstance, had to go to work.
Harold Ramis
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No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.
Millicent Fawcett
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But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
James Madison
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Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me But some things are meant to be Coincidence, circumstance Or something bigger thats just out of our hands But some things are meant to be
Sammy Kershaw
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In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.
Mary Anne Radmacher
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Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.
Roy T. Bennett
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
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No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.
Mary Somerville
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Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.
Edith Wharton
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?
Eudora Welty
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Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.
Harry Frankfurt
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