I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.
Michael Nyman

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
Margaret Halsey

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
George Saintsbury

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Sam Rayburn

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
Jacques Ellul

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.
Mother Maribel

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
Thomas Reid

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Fernando Flores

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Blaine Lee

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Olympia Brown

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.
Anson Jones

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
Thomas Frank

The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.
Timothy White

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

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
Isaac Rosenberg

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Marshall Field

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
Catherine II

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.
Chuck Robb

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
Peter Snell

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.
James Newman