439 Quotes About Circumstance

You have this very stable support for a principle, but a willingness to limit it in lots of circumstances over the last decade.

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure /tangible material prosperity in this world /is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

The harder the circumstances, the more trying the environment, the stronger are those who come out of those circumstances.

We're still reviewing the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Most of the investigation is complete. At this point, we're largely in the evaluation stage of the review.

We have to make sure that the people in this circumstance have some access.

So when the issues do arise, they typically are in unusual circumstances.

We feel like we're losing an advocate, and that's the part that hurts the most. In any circumstance to lose him is bad, and to lose him under questionable circumstances is even worse.

What the Fed showed was that extraordinary circumstances require an extraordinary strategy. Not only are they moving rates to lows not seen since the early '60s, they're prepared to move them a lot lower.

Monetary policy is the perfect instrument for these circumstances. The Fed can keep pushing as needed, but still can turn on a dime and pull back as soon as spending starts to rebound.