Quotes of Setting - somelinesforyou

“ He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances. ”

- David Hume

“ Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signior Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa and is here at the door to speak with him. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ This fearful concatenation of circumstances. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere. ”

- Chris Bailey

“ If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script. ”

- Mel Gibson

“ West Wing. There are certain circumstances where you don't want it to have that gloss. ”

- John Wells

“ Circumstances make man, not man circumstances. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The president has said we're not going to engage in torture under any circumstances. And so you're asking me to answer a hypothetical that is never going to occur. ”

- Patrick Leahy

“ We live in unusual circumstances. In other circumstances I would never have sought these additional powers. But we do live in very dangerous and different and threatening circumstances. ”

- John Howard

“ Under the present circumstances, it will take at least 200 years. ”

- Hugo Chavez

“ The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. ”

- Francis Schaeffer

“ Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high. ”

- Greg Norman

“ There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command; if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the. ”

- Ulysses Grant

“ I find it extraordinary that a straightforward, if inelegant, device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously? ”

- P. D. James

“ We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic. ”

- Mary Montagu

“ You're innocent until proven guilty. And you do not under any circumstances — you do not, do not — say that somebody has to come before whatever the tribunal is and prove they're innocent. ”

- Patrick Leahy

“ We've been in a relatively negative technology environment ever since the August rally ended. Today's drop is a follow-through on more bad news. Also, the developments on Iraq and deflationary concerns in the economic are in the background. ”

- John Hughes

“ You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. ”

- Plato

“ Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun. ”

- Augusta Jane Evans

“ Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last. ”

- Richard Forsyth

“ Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. ”

- Joseph Epstein

“ Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. ”

- W. H. Auden
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