Quotes About Unfamiliar Circumstances

#1. But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. Impatience is best handled by allowing an indefinite time for the job, particularly new jobs that require unfamiliar techniques; by doubling the allotted time when circumstances force time planning;

Robert M. Pirsig

#3. We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

Mahmoud Abbas

#4. There are a thousand spears in my back,' said a little sharp voice, 'and they are all devoted to the Princess and to her alone.

E. Nesbit

#5. If you're always looking back at what you've lost, you'll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#6. Kate could feel a strange heat along the back of her neck, something she hadn't felt in a while. It was almost exotic, like tasting turmeric or saffron after a year of eating pudding. There was a bite to it.
She was annoyed.
She was finally awake and annoyed.

Sarah Addison Allen

#7. We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the rising sun, combat and honour; the IVth went west, to the setting sun, to ignominy and a wealth of digging. We sang as we marched. They did not.

M.C. Scott