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

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

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Augustine of Hippo

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Edward Thorndike

In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
Talcott Parsons

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
James Stockdale

Circumstances can be very important. Find the right people to work with.
Steve Lacy

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.
Peter O'Toole

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Pam Grier

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
Jean Racine

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
Barbara Kruger

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
Arnold J. Toynbee

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
Barbara Jordan

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
Joshua Chamberlain

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.
William Kingdon Clifford

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
Bela Lugosi

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
Samuel E. Morison

Man is the creature of circumstances.
Robert Owen