We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
Benjamin Disraeli
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REBECCA GOLDSTEIN The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Sir, my circumstances,
Being so near the truth as I will make them,
Must first induce you to b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
C.P. SCOTT Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
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ALEXANDER POPE Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms.
HENRY JOHN TEMPLE PALMERSTON For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather
show us to be what we are.
THOMAS A KEMPIS And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself
to circumstances.
[Lat., Et mih...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.
THOMAS HARDY Circumstances alter cases.
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON (USED PSEUDONYM SAM SLICK) To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and
convenience of our lives.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Circumstances beyond my individual control.
CHARLES DICKENS Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
WILLIAM COWPER By some fortuitous concourse of atoms.
[Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The long arm of coincidence.
CHARLES HADDON CHAMBERS I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse--borne away with every breath.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Men are the sport of circumstances, when
The circumstances seem the sport of men.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) And circumstance, that unspiritual god,
And miscreator, makes and helps along
Our coming evils...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not
to the power of God, but to the for...
RICHARD BENTLEY Odd instances of strange coincidence.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The massive gates of circumstance
Are turned upon the smallest hinge,
And thus some seeming pe...
ANONYMOUS It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could
effect.
[Lat., Quid velit et possit ...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not
circumstances by the plans.
[Lat., Cons...
TITUS LIVY F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr.
------ and declines to interfere in ci...
DANIEL WEBSTER This fearful concatenation of circumstances.
DANIEL WEBSTER Man is not the creature of circumstances,
Circumstances are the creatures of men.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only
what is ugly and evil from the sam...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and
accident, that such regular mutations and...
J. SMITH ("JOHN SMITH OF CAMBRIDGE") And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Who does the best that circumstance allows,
Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more.
EDWARD YOUNG The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good
to others.
[Lat., Aliena nobis,...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signior
Lucentio that his father is come from Pis...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
ELISABETH ELLIOT Never argue. In society nothing must be discussed; give only results. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804–188...
ROBERT GREENE Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, o...
JOHN B. SHEERIN You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Your circumstance is not your outcome.
ANITA R. SNEED-CARTER You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself...
MOUTASEM ALGHARATI People tell me they have no idea what I am going through, but then feel they have a right to judge h...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by cir...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by cir...
ADMIRAL WILLIAM FREDERICK HALSEY JR. (BULL) We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Adventures are to the adventurous.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the p...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI