CIRCUMSTANCE QUOTES II

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


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


Circumstances are like clouds continually gathering and bursting.

JOHN KEATS

letter to the George Keatses, March 19, 1819


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"


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


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


Man is not the creature of circumstances,
Circumstances are the creatures of men.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Vivian Grey


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 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


What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.

HORACE

Epistles


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


Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

G.K. CHESTERTON

Heretics


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"


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


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