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Circumstance Quotes
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. - Ben Chandler Quotes
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. - Henry David Thoreau Quotes
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. - Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes
Yeah, I wasnt chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasnt planned by anyone. - Neil Armstrong Quotes
If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war. - Jim Walton Quotes
People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do. - Jeb Bush Quotes
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. - Kate Millett Quotes
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. - William Hazlitt Quotes
O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Joves dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell! Othellos occupations gone! - William Shakespeare Quotes
To exraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies. - Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 its happening. - Kato Kaelin Quotes
Dont wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations. - Charles Richter Quotes
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 Quotes
I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. - Sidney Poitier Quotes
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 Quotes
The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing. - L Ron Hubbard Quotes
People think that because a novels invented, it isnt true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. - Anthony Powell Quotes
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. - John Drinkwater Quotes
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 Quotes
Im always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you dont see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. - Irvine Welsh Quotes
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. - Martha Washington Quotes
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 Quotes
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. - George Eliot Quotes
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