Circumstance quotes
45 circumstance quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Before Sunset
“- Celine: The past is the past. It was meant to be that way.
- Jesse: What, you really believe that? That everything's fated?
- Celine: Well, you know, the world might be less free than we think.
- Jesse: Yeah?
- Celine: Yeah, when given these exact circumstances, that's what will happen every time: two part hydrogen, one part oxygen, you get...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Streets of Fire
“Looks like I finally ran into someone that likes to play as rough as I do.”
- From the movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
“Things never happen the same way twice, dear one.”
- From the movie: Letters from Iwo Jima
“Everything happens in threes.”
- From the movie: Murder Over New York
- From the movie: Love the Hard Way
“For a long time I'd been leading an unstable, risky life. I'd hung out with all sorts of people, nothing could shock me anymore. I was not impressed by the unexpected, I'd always been able to handle it.”
- From the movie: Shadow Of The Thin Man
“I was the victim of circumstances. The D.A. framed me, not knowing I was guilty. Ain't that a coincidence?”
- From the movie: It's a Wonderful Life
- From the movie: The Frighteners
“When a man's jawbone drops off it's time to reassess the situation.”
- From the movie: Delicatessen
“Nobody is entirely evil: it's that circumstances that make them evil, or they don't know they are doing evil.”
- From the movie: Gangs of New York
“The earth turns, but we don't feel it more. And one night you look up. One spark and the whole sky is on fire.”
- From the movie: Jaws: The Revenge
“Since time immemorial, events have taken place with no evident reason for their happening. Such phenomena has been man's dilemma and the subject of constant philosophical discussion. When there is no factor motivating an event, no case of cause creating effect, what triggered the action: fate or circumstance?”
- From the movie: Goodbye Lover
“Either the world's right side up or upside down, it depends on how you look at it. I mean, close the book of rules and there's just people caught in situations - like you and me.”
- From the movie: Torch Song Trilogy
- Ed Reese: Whoops.
- Arnold Beckoff: Whoops? Ed, did you say "whoops"? No, Ed. "Whoops" is when you fall down an elevator shaft. "Whoops" is when you skinny-dip in a school of piranha. "Whoops" is when you accidentally douche with Drano! No, Ed. This was no "whoops." This was an "Aha-ha-ha-ha"! - From the movie: Very Bad Things
“Allow me to be the first to say that what we have done here is not a good thing. It's definitely not a good thing. But it was, given the circumstances, the smart play.”
- From the movie: Repo Man
“A repo man spends his life getting into tense situations.”
- From the movie: Feeling Minnesota
“Life is one big emergency, man, so fuck off.”
- From the movie: Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
“You ought to relate to women in a more natural way, in a less self-conscious and pre-directed manner. You shouldn't go with a purpose of achieving this or that, you should just let the relationships develop and happen as they do by the accidental circumstances of life.”
- From the movie: Disorder in the Court
“I'm a victim of circumstance.”
- From the movie: Speed 2: Cruise Control
“Relationships based on extreme circumstances never work out.”
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