#circumstance

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#adult #ambulance #another #argue #assistance

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances. ↗

— Peter Snell

#career #circumstances #developed #gold #gold medal

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#accustomed #actually #asleep #cannon #circumstances

I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#because #circumstance #extreme #frame #humanity

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#circumstances #clear #conduct #doing #duty

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. ↗

— George C. Williams

#capable #circumstances #darwin #empirical #every

I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#am #andre #back #because #blew

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#characters #circumstances #imagine #interests #location

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#characters #circumstances #imagine #interests #location

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. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#certain #circumstances #course #covered #favorable