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Circumstances Quotes
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At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly. (Quote by - Fritz Sauckel)
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important. (Quote by - Floyd Abrams)
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. (Quote by - Henry A. Wallace)
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. (Quote by - Confucius)
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. (Quote by - Arnold J. Toynbee)
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. (Quote by - James Stockdale)
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. (Quote by - James Lane Allen)
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. (Quote by - William H. Seward)
Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones. (Quote by - Ellsworth Huntington)