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Circumstances Quotes

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

Circumstances Try Suit Us Ourselves

If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write - and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy - I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

War Me Desire Accuracy Circumstances

I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its own wasteful expenditures.

Stand Back Circumstances Own Cannot

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Job Circumstances Try Even Adverse

It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.

Circumstances Secret Years Going

You can't always change your circumstances, but you can change the way you experience them.

Gabrielle Bernstein

Change Experience You Circumstances

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters.

Brand Circumstances London Outside

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.

Live Brave You Train Circumstances

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

Circumstances Defend United Going

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

Me Situation Circumstances Whatever

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Barbara Mikulski

Woman Medical Doctor Circumstances

In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Life Paths Evolution Circumstances

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way.

Power People Pressure Circumstances

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

Think Abortion Circumstances Right

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

James Surowiecki

Smart People Sometimes Circumstances

There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.

Violence Circumstances Out Capacity

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

James Forrestal

Good War Losing Chance Circumstances

I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, 'Hey, do you want to make a movie?' And that's how I made friends, and it was also my escape.

Friends You Say Movies Circumstances

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

Men Circumstances Rule

'Ick investing' means taking a special analytical interest in stocks that inspire a first reaction of 'ick.' I tend to become interested in stocks that by their very names or circumstances inspire unwillingness - and an 'ick' accompanied by a wrinkle of the nose on the part of most investors to delve any further.

Inspire Special Circumstances Become

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Work Man Think Worry Circumstances

When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.

Stephen Rodrick

Down Go Know Circumstances Matter

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

Men Circumstances Human Over Us Get

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Now Circumstances Behave Only Unreal

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