#stance

When France resolved, along with England, to lend assistance in the legitimate defense of Poland, the realization burst on us that a conflict of awesome proportions was inevitable. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#assistance #awesome #burst #conflict #defense

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. ↗

— Catherine II

#circumstances #conjectures #guided #must #politics

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#distance #future #give #need #needs

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. ↗

— Jennie Churchill

#forever #shadows #substance #throwing

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#circumstances #i #i am #i do #know

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#driving #evidence #excel #faith #getting

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#distance #ear #eyes #impossible #laugh

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#just #made #middle #runners #up

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#been #circumstance #costume #excuse #i