Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

All the same we take our chances,
Laughed at by time, tricked by circumstances,
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose,
The more that things change, the more they stay the same. -- Circumstances (1978)

My circumstances are unusual, Brightness.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

What may be good circumstances in one man, cannot be deemed so in another.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

They are. But in Special Circumstances we deal in the moral equivalent of black holes, where the normal laws — the rules of right and wrong that people imagine apply everywhere else in the universe — break down; beyond those metaphysical event horizons, there exist . . . special circumstances.” She smiled. “That’s us. That’s our territory; our domain.” “To some people,” he said, “that might sound like just a good excuse for bad behavior.

Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

If circumstances change, your decisions can change. Decisions are temporary.

Information changes situations.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.