Changing Circumstances Quotes

The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The bull market, rising prices, earning lots of money, make it seem as if the good days will never end. When prices are falling and there is a recession, that also feels as though it will last for ever. Politics is the same. People simply can't imagine changing circumstances.

Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

Every fighter has a different agenda. Every promoter has a different agenda for their fighter. Every manager has a different agenda. So things change all the time.

Happiness is a moving target.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.

You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.

You have to adapt your policies to changing circumstances.

Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.

I feel like there are instances and circumstances in your life that always change. You can think someone's your friend, and it could be out of convenience, or there was something in it for them, or whatever. And a year later, something happens and you really need help, or all of a sudden they have to stand up for you, and it could be inconvenient for them or not benefit them. And they don't have your back. And you're like, "Ok, that friendship was circumstantial. You were only my friend when it was easy." What's hard is you can't tell from the beginning.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.