Circumstantial Constraints Quotes

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.

As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we all do.

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.