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Circumstances Quotes

There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Relationship Small Circumstances Over

Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

War Information Circumstances Need

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

People Young Circumstances Dying

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

Learning Trust People Circumstances

I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.

S. Robson Walton

Believe Circumstances Unfair More

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Opportunities Circumstances Birth Us

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.

Weather Long Circumstances Evidence

I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Man Doing Help Boy Circumstances He

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

Think Facts Circumstances Reaction

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood.

Richard Matheson

People Circumstances Castles Real

So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

Malcolm Turnbull

Child Parents Circumstances Reason

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.

Child Fighting Circumstances Out Get

The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

Rich Born Circumstances Way Events

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.

Architecture Foundation Circumstances

It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

Yourself Know Circumstances Difficult

The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

Marianne Williamson

Life Sun You Circumstances Ask Him

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

Ferdinand Christian Baur

Time Ideas Circumstances Position

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Prayer Circumstances Relief Profanity

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

Cameron Mackintosh

Best You Circumstances Out Bring

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

Peace War Rules Circumstances Either

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

Johann G. Seume

Man Circumstances Out Only He His

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

Earl Nightingale

Circumstances Within Take Rule Us

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

Kristin Armstrong

Life Beauty Pain Go Circumstances

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

Andrea Riseborough

Home You Body Go Kind Circumstances

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