#circumstances

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs. ↗

— Dario Fo

#affairs #american #circumstances #current #current state

Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#anytime #attention #because #circumstances #daughter

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#circumstances #free #free will #great #i

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#been #circumstances #creating #enjoy #find

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#certain things #child #circumstances #grow #grow up

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. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#century #circumstances #conscious #first #free

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#circumstances #england #europe #event #follow

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#anyhow #been #circumstances #desert #evil

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances. ↗

— Ang Lee

#because #big #circumstances #function #i