#circumstance

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#innovation #intelligence #beauty

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#able #circumstances #count #dire #doctor

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#circumstance #i #myself #painter #thought

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#depends #how #knowing #long #majority

All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it. ↗

— Mario Monti

#any #believe #circumstance #consider #forces

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#create #fails #goal #many #succeed

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#circumstances #common #common sense #historical #i

As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#brand #circumstances #cutbacks #disasters #economic

We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#circumstances #companies #creative #different #different world

And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#clinton #event #field #just #like