quotations about circumstances
His circumstances are like a hostile multitude. Turn where he would, every circumstance seems to approach him like a foe.
J.H. JOWETT
"Treasures in Earthen Vessels", The Continent, June 3, 1915
Circumstances are like clouds continually gathering and bursting.
JOHN KEATS
letter to the George Keatses, March 19, 1819
Condition, circumstance is not the thing.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Man
Good advice is like a tight glove; it fits the circumstances, and it does not fit other circumstances.
CHARLES READE
A Terrible Temptation
Dont tell me a man always has to adjust himself to the circumstances. A man's circumstance is his dirt. I am too familiar with your underlying assets to assent to this overlying result. Do I expect you to fight? Am I asking too much? Yes, fight. No: I am only asking enough. I see nothing preposterous in asking a man to be what he is. In asking beauty to be beautiful. In asking a song to sing.
HORACE TRAUBEL
The Conservator, September 1913
I'm a casualty
A victim of my own circumstance
A casualty, a hopeless case
That never stood a chance at all
THE HOLLIES
"Casualty"
Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
We are all the product of our thoughts and our feelings, and the circumstances in which destiny unfolds arise because we have called them forth according to our view of the world.
THEUN MARES
Cry of the Eagle
Circumstances beyond my individual control.
CHARLES DICKINS
David Copperfield
Such a strategist was the king that he had a contingency plan for his contingency plan, and even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.
FRANK BEDDOR
Seeing Redd
Just a victim of circumstance
Didn't you know
Just a victim of circumstance
Doesn't it show
I'm just a victim of circumstance
Wherever I go
Just a victim of bad reputation
I got no chance of shakin'
JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS
"Victim of Circumstance"
Man is not the creature of circumstances,
Circumstances are the creatures of men.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Vivian Grey
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
G.K. CHESTERTON
Heretics
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON
The Old Judge
Recognize that people are a product of their environment. Your circumstances are different from those around you, and the circumstances in which other people find themselves can tell you a lot about why they are who they are.
JERRY WELCH
The Encyclopedia of your Observations
What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.
HORACE
Epistles
Circumstances are like a mattress: if you're on top, you rest easy, but if you get underneath, you suffocate!
RICK WARREN
God's Power to Change Your Life
Given the hopeless nature of our times
And how it would change things
And given the circumstances of our lives
You'd have done the same thing
You'd have done the same thing
You'd have done the same.
THE FLAMING LIPS
"The Strange Design of Conscience"
Man in the presence of circumstance is like a pianist facing the keys of a piano. On that keyboard the sounds are prescribed for him, but the melodies he can create are infinite.
UNKNOWN
Medical Newsmagazine, 1965