Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
James Allen

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
Peter Singer

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
Joy Page

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
Joy Page

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
Nicholas Sparks

There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
Jackie Stewart

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

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
Robertson Davies

How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Horace Walpole

In the same circumstances, I know that I would do the same thing again.
Melita Norwood

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
Natalie Portman

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.
Peter McWilliams

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
Amy Tan

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph Addison

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.
Ulrich Beck