Circumstance Quotes (page 23)

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• she
• rejection
• mother

I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were. Emily Giffin

• friend
• work
• him

And ultimately, she’s told Drs. Rusk and Tavis, she’d rather have Hal abide in the security of the knowledge that his mother trusts him, that she’s trusting and supportive and doesn’t judge or gizzard-tear or wring her fine hands over his having for instance a glass of Canadian ale with friends every now and again, and so works tremendously hard to hide her maternal dread of his possibly ever drinking like James himself or James’s father, all so that Hal might enjoy the security of feeling... David Foster Wallace

• youthfulness
• youths
• youth

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• decision
• decision making
• little

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself. Elizabeth Gilbert

• loser
• choose
• responsibility

If I cling to circumstances I could feelnot responsible. Only she who saysshe did not choose, is the loser in the end. Adrienne Rich

• circumstances
• making
• yours

your circumstances do not make you who you are! Mary J. Blige

• inspirational
• life
• single life

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change! Rhonda Byrne

• time
• lies
• doings

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. Harper Lee

• happy
• parting
• dependency

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. Bertrand Russell

• change
• faith
• art

faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances. C. S. Lewis

• small
• death
• him

But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually forgotten, overlooked in his life one small circumstance - that death would come and everything would end, that it was not worth starting anything and that nothing could possibly be done about it. Yes, it was terrible, but it was so. Leo Tolstoy

• winning
• help
• victory

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Harry S. Truman

• power
• sister
• dead

Adrian's fragment also refers to the question of responsibility: whether there's a chain of it, or whether we draw the concept more narrowly. I'm all for drawing it narrowly. Sorry, no, you can't blame your dead parents, or having brothers and sisters, or not having them, or your genes, or society, or whatever - not in normal circumstances. Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary. Julian Barnes

• world
• ironic
• liking

I have seen giraffes in junglejimstheir necks like lovewound around the iron circumstances of the world. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

• bored
• lazy
• lazy people

And I fancy, besides, that we seem like such different people ... through various circumstances, that we cannot perhaps have many points in common. But yet I don't believe in that last idea myself, for it often only seems that there are no points in common, when there really are some ... it's just laziness that makes people classify themselves according to appearances, and fail to find anything in common.... But perhaps I am boring you? You seem ... Fyodor Dostoevsky