Circumstance Quotes

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.

While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

Elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me.

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. … under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances.