Unfavorable Circumstances Quotes

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.

Misfortunes never come singly.

I was a little-known political consultant until Bill Clinton made me. When he came upon hard times, I felt it my duty - whatever my personal misgivings - to stick by him.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

I'm not a big fan of losing.

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

I've had to grow up pretty fast, which is not a good thing.

Times were poor. I wore hand-me-downs. And because the kids just older than me in the family were girls, sometimes I had to wear my sisters' hand-me-downs.

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

It's been a year of many more downs than ups.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

The deck is stacked against Obama.

I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.

Everybody had a bad day. It's possible to have two bad days in a row. And in this sport, it's so unforgiving.

He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

I had to stay in the house a lot because my Mom didn't want to see me on the news. I wasn't a bad child. She just didn't want me in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn't have a lot - three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough.

It's the right idea, but not the right time.

Sometimes there are no good choices.