Under No Circumstances Quotes

#1. That's one thing I've learned about food through pure empirical research: food is a patriot. Under no circumstances will it be replicated outside of its mother country.

Laia Jufresa

#2. At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly.

Fritz Sauckel

#3. The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.

Jane Jacobs

#4. Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

Robin Pecknold

#5. I know you better than you think, Leonidis, and under no circumstances are you allowed to try to fix this. I think you may be right. I think it may be time to tell them the truth, but in my own time, okay?" God licked Day's parted lips. "Okay," Day whispered. "Also" -

A.E. Via

#6. We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Agnes Repplier

#8. As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent any possible war, but under no circumstances should we harbour any unrealistic notions about them.

Mao Zedong

#9. Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies for the sheer joy of it, and to uphold a general principle that under no circumstances do you provide accurate information to a cop.

David Simon

#10. Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.

Roger Ebert

#11. Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

Sunni Brown

#12. Can you also write down that under no circumstances can either of us tell anyone the truth?" I ask him. "The first rule of Fight Club," Peter says knowingly. "I've never seen that movie." "Of course you haven't," he says, and I make a face at him. Also: mental note, watch Fight Club.

Jenny Han

#13. In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

Sun Tzu

#14. The finger pointing at the moon remains a finger and under no circumstances can it be changed into the moon itself.

D.T. Suzuki

#15. Under no circumstances do I ever want to see any part of me having sex! I wouldn't want to see video tape, pictures, in the mirror, nothing.

Moby

#16. Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

Walker Evans

#17. Dear Ms. Baird, As of today, you do have a slave clause in your contract. It means you do everything I say. Under no circumstances are you to eat, sleep, take breaks, or check in to hotel rooms with men named Eggplant. Sincerely, Gabriel

Nalini Singh

#18. Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.

Iain Hewitson

#19. Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.

David Ben-Gurion

#20. Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

David O. Selznick

#21. In this office we do not have problems. We have interesting developments. We have challenges. If we absolute must we may, on occasion, have a slight difficulty. But under no circumstances whatsoever do we have problems.

Karen Miller

#22. In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

Mohammed Mahdi Akef

#23. Under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.

Vladimir Nabokov

#24. Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.

Pal Benko

#25. Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.

Billy Davies

#26. A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.

A.M. Dean

#27. While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.

Chelsea Handler

#28. No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.

Robert Reich

#29. I have no sympathy for those who, under any pressure of circumstances, sacrifice their heart's-love for legal prostitution.

Harriet Martineau

#30. There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances.

Noel Streatfeild

#31. Under normal physical circumstances, there is no reason, no excuse to remain weak since methodical and steady work allows one to become strong.

Ed Thomas

#32. It's the notion that there is no perfection - that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

Leonard Cohen

#33. You can't maintain discipline that way." Mallow said icily, "I can. There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.

Isaac Asimov

#34. Never, under any circumstances, accept a position of responsibility. You will be forced to work harder with no other benefits than a few extra bucks - 'peanuts,' as they say, if that.

Corinne Maier

#35. Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

William Thoms

#36. There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighbouring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

Reuven Rivlin

#37. No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances .

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#38. Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

Camilla Lackberg

#39. He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?
"No.

Patricia Briggs

#40. I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

Margaret Oliphant

#41. I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

Abigail Washburn

#42. There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would leave you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.

Jodi Picoult

#43. I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

Hillary Clinton

#44. If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

Pope Benedict XVI

#45. Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

Jeremy Collier

#46. He was furious with me. I didn't care. He was back. He was alive. My heart did a flip-
flop. I thrilled to his presence. I would anywhere, anytime, under any circumstances. No
matter what he was, what he'd done.

Karen Marie Moning

#47. Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.

Dalai Lama

#48. Controversies remain over the details, but today no biologist doubts that evolutionary dynamics like mutualism, kinship, and various forms of reciprocity can select for psychological faculties that, under the right circumstances, can lead people to coexist peacefully.4

Steven Pinker

#49. How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him ...

George Eliot

#50. When we used to play, we thought no one can break Sunil Gavaskar's record. No one could think about 50 Test centuries at that time. This is certainly a big knock under the circumstances, better than the 200s and 300s.

Kapil Dev

#51. Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

Walker Percy

#52. Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all, Burke writes.

Yuval Levin

#53. There is no situation under the sun in which your ability to respond can be taken away from you. You may not control your circumstances, but you control your reactions to them. And that is what sets the men apart from the boys!

Mark Batterson

#54. Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

George Santayana

#55. Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

Geraldine Brooks

#56. There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Lin Yutang

#57. In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.

Martin Van Buren

#58. When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

Harry Stack Sullivan

#59. There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Isaac Asimov

#60. There is no rule that is true under all circumstances, for this is the real and not a statistical world. Because the statistical method shows only the average aspects, it creates an artificial and predominantly conceptual picture of reality.

C. G. Jung

#61. Once you learn to remain calm under the stressful circumstances of a fight, you will have no trouble remaining calm under the stressful circumstances of life.

Ryron Gracie

#62. Only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they seemingly may be, no one can under such circumstances be normal. Their disturbed circulation makes them cold, their distress makes them unstrung, sleepless. Persons they normally like, they often turn from.

Joan Didion

#63. Imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.

Mary B. Harris

#64. There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

Jodi Picoult

#65. This, and no other, is justice: - to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#66. Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#67. We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.

Seneca.

#68. No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

Joseph Brodsky

#69. There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

Karl Marx

#70. Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

Hadewijch

#71. With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

Mike Rinder

#72. A man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly. Thus

Carlos Castaneda

#73. Laurence could make no real quarrel with the aims, which were natural and just; but England was at war, after all, and he was conscious, as Temeraire was not, of the impudence in demanding concessions from their own Government under such circumstances: very like mutiny. Yet

Naomi Novik

#74. In a friendship, especially in a friendship between two young boys, you are allowed to inflict a certain amount of pain. This is even expected. But you must cause no serious injury; you must never, under any circumstances, leave wounds that will result in permanent scars.

Joe Hill

#75. In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again.

James Agee

#76. There is little sense in pitting a lesser sense of duty against a greater one. No leader could expect loyalty to hold under those circumstances.

C.S. Pacat

#77. Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.

Georgette Mosbacher

#78. I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#79. It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.

David Harsanyi