Circumstances alter cases.
Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.
We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.
We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.
I am I plus my circumstances.
Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.
No matter our age, our circumstances, or abilities. . . Each one of us can create something remarkable with our lives.
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.
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat. , Varia sors rerum. ]
The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
You speak like a green girl unsifted in such perilous circumstances.
Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.
The only way to deal with yourself as an actor is to follow the emotional truth of what you have to do under the imaginary circumstances. And as you develop you become confident. You come to believe in what you're doing and trust it because it's out of you.
It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.
The Gospels were written in such temporal and geographical proximity to the events they record that it would have been almost impossible to fabricate events. Anyone who cared to could have checked out the accuracy of what they reported. The fact that the disciples were able to proclaim the resurrection in Jerusalem in the face of their enemies a few weeks after the crucifixion shows that what they proclaimed was true, for they could never have proclaimed the resurrection under such circumstances had it not occurred.
If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.
In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying to bring out is that one does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances.
