How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.
I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
In many ways, we all have extraordinary circumstances thrust upon us in life, and it's up to us to do the best with them.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.
Obama and Holder would make it a felony not to submit to a rigorous grilling for anyone transferring any firearm anywhere in the nation including any now-legal private circumstances.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Many comedic stars have tried to a do a 'Night at the Museum' type film, in which an everyday Joe reacts to insane circumstances. Many flat out failed.
I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show.
So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
