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| Den är lycklig vars temperament passar omständigheterna, men överlägsen är den som kan anpassa sitt temperament efter omständigheterna. | David Hume (1711-1776) |
| Omständigheterna är de svagas härskare men de visas medel. | Samuel Lover (1797-1868) |
| The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am | Laura Schlessinger (1947-) |
| Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| 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. | Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) |
| 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. | Mario Andretti (1940-) |
| No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly. | Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) |
| When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| 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 | Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) |
| 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 | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| 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. | Harvey S. Firestone (1868-) |