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Letter "C" » circumstance
«A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world»
Author: Alice Miller
(Writer)
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
circumstance, cooks, cough, homework, inner child, inner world, kindly
«How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.»
«An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich»
Author: Dean Allen
| About:
Adulthood,
Living
| Keywords:
adult male, circumstance, sandwich, simultaneously, tragicomic, vaguely, whiz, whizzing
«It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when Western civilization discovers Relativity it applies it to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas Oriental civilization applies it to the development of new states of consciousness»
Author: Frederic Spiegelberg
| Keywords:
applies, atom, atom bomb, atom bombs, bombs, circumstance, discovers, manufacture, Oriental, remarkable, The Oriental, Western
«If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. (attributed)»
Author: Theodore Dreiser
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
attributed, bandage, bandaged, bandages, bloody, circumstance, invented, personally, protect
«In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.»
«A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is ''sensitive';' or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture / in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
addict, analytically, circumstance, crummy, despairs, disc, disc jockey, drug addict, drug addicts, group of people, jockey, jockeys, mediocre, mythic, scientist, The Culture, virtually
«DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead --a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
circumstance, conversion, conversions, Conversion of, digestion, Dr., Dr, dyspepsia, evolved, imperfect, infer, inferred, infers, Jeremiah, sufferers, victual, victuals
«Consider that thou dost not even understand whether men are doing wrong or not, for many things are done with a certain reference to circumstance. And, in short, a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
| Keywords:
circumstance, done with, enable, in short, reference, references, reference to, with reference to
«Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Circumstances
| Keywords:
by laws, circumstance, decrees, obeyed, policies, regardless
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