Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. (Qutoe by - Benjamin Disraeli)

The changeful change of circumstances. (Qutoe by - Tacitus)

And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod, Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod. (Qutoe by - Lord Byron)

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. (Qutoe by - Oliver Goldsmith)

F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control. (Qutoe by - Daniel Webster)

An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich. (Quote by - Dean Allen)

Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. (Qutoe by - Titus Livy)

Circumstances beyond my individual control. (Qutoe by - Charles Dickens)

Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms. (Qutoe by - Henry John Temple Palmerston)

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. (Qutoe by - Alexander Pope)

So runs the round of life from hour to hour. (Qutoe by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)

What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. (Qutoe by - Horace)

It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. (Qutoe by - Benjamin Disraeli)

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. (Qutoe by - Syrus)

For these attacks do not contribute to make us frail but rather show us to be what we are. (Qutoe by - Thomas a Kempis)