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

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

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

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

I was born in very sorry circumstances.
Norman Wisdom

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

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Halsey

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

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

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.
Jessica Hahn

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

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

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

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

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell

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

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

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

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
Lester B. Pearson

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