Top Circumstance Quotes
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.
Sherilyn Fenn
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
Charles Simeon
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt
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.
Alice Duer Miller
John Drinkwater 
Bashar al-Assad 
Giacomo Casanova 
Camille Claudel 
William Hazlitt All Circumstance Quotes
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton 
66% of people like this quote
I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.
Sherilyn Fenn
59% of people like this quote
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
Charles Simeon
59% of people like this quote
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt
58% of people like this quote
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.
Alice Duer Miller
57% of people like this quote
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
Bashar al-Assad
56% of people like this quote
I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
Sidney Poitier
56% of people like this quote
Popular Circumstance Authors
George EliotWilliam HazlittJames A. BaldwinDavid HumeGiacomo CasanovaKate MillettPat RobertsonBashar al-AssadSidney PoitierCharles BabbageSherilyn FennE. O. WilsonMarcus V. PollioNeil ArmstrongBruce Sterling
Camille ClaudelIrvine WelshKato KaelinJohn StrachanBruce BartonWilliam FalconerJohn DrinkwaterHelen Hunt JacksonAdam WeishauptJim WaltonClive BellJeb BushTheodore RoethkeEdward ZwickAnthony Powell
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