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Letter "C" » Circumstances
«He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Circumstances,
Temper
| Keywords:
suit
«A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.»
Author: Harvey S. Firestone
| About:
Circumstances,
Control,
Opportunity
| Keywords:
controlled, surplus, surpluses
«No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Circumstances,
Home,
Living
| Keywords:
Leave It, poorly
«Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.»
Author: Lawrence Durrell
| About:
Circumstances,
Journey
| Keywords:
artists, contribute, differing, journeys, willed
«Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.»
Author: Mario Andretti
(Race driver)
| About:
Circumstances,
Goals
| Keywords:
adding, circumstances, delaying, delays, increasing, interruptions, lost cause, occurs, prepare, sight
«Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.»
«If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens little if at all inferior to them in discipline and»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
| About:
Circumstances,
Government
| Keywords:
Army of, Body of, formidable, inferior, liberties, oblige
«I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!»
«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
«Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Circumstances
| Keywords:
advantage, as to, Be Cool, circumstances, cool, cooler, coolest, cooling, cools, cool it, one-person, remain, unruffled, your cool
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