Circumstance Quotes - page 9

It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance. (Ina May Gaskin)
Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him. View quote
Jeffrey R. Holland
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed. View quote
Jerry Moran
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance. View quote
Jewel
At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness. View quote
Jill Scott
I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance. View quote
Joan Allen
If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. View quote
John Drinkwater
... we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory. View quote
Joni Eareckson Tada
A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. View quote
Julie Roberts
Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself. View quote
Lindsay Wagner
It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance. (Elian Gonzalez)
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence. View quote
Nick Bantock
I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. View quote
Patrick Duffy
I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things. View quote
Rob Lowe
One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country. View quote
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance. View quote
Ralph Marston
I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'. View quote
Sharon Lawrence
You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better. View quote
Slim Jimmy
Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for. View quote
Steven Van Zandt
We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance. View quote
William Stephenson
There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust. (Wayne Knight)
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance perversity is the soul's very life. View quote
John Updike
Man is neither unique nor central nor necessarily here to stay. But he is a product of circumstances special to the point of disbelief. And if man in his current predicament seeks a fair mystique to see him through, then I can only suggest that he consider his genes. For they are marked. They are graven by luck beyond explanation. They are stamped by forces that we shall never know. But even so, in the hieroglyph of the human emergence certain symbols must stand for all to read: Change is the elixir of the human circumstance, and acceptance of challenge the way of our kind. We are bad-weather animals, disaster's fairest children. For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst. View quote
Robert Ardrey
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously. View quote
Dan Millman
The historian is not only a lover of truth, not only a chronicler of events. These, indeed, he must be at his peril, but how much more! Insight into human nature-and this implies the rarest knowledge and finest sympathy of which man is capable; the power of tracing the delicate relation between deed and motive, and the pressure of action upon circumstance and circumstance upon action; knowledge of the world, in short, in the highest sense of that expression. View quote
Henry Nettleship