Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.