A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.
It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.
There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.
Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.
A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but just the message sitting there, enigmatic, to decode.
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.
There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.
Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.
A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will.
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.
I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.