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Circumstance Quotes
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit."
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"I am I plus my circumstances."
175
"I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances."
82
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
78
"Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree."
74
"Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it."
72
"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."
70
"In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared."
67
"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."
66
"Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around."
63
"To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances."
63
"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
61
"I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so."
61
"I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out."
60
"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."
60
"Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition."
60
"I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make."
58
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
58
"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."
58
"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."
57
"Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances."
57
"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
56
"Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her."
56
"Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world."
56
"McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance."
55
"Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone."
55
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
55
"I met Jesse Owens once. He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances."
54
"It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job."
54
"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
53
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
53
"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
53
"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
53
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
52
"I was born in very sorry circumstances."
52
"I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances."
52
"This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets."
51
"It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal."
51
"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
51
"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."
51
"Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts."
51
"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
50
"Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion."
50
"I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry."
49
"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others."
49
"When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years."
49
"Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result?"
49
"We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance."
49
"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."
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