#stance

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#being #established #ever #few #ideas

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#distance #erode #like #memories #stones

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#disposition #experience #happiness #misery #experience

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#america #believe #care #circumstances #existing

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. ↗

— Les Brown

#begin #charge #design #destinies #dreams

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances. ↗

— Cameron van der Burgh

#bid #concentrating #distances #focus #going

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men. ↗

— Lord Byron

#men #seems

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#cities #city #cloud #continents #differences

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience. ↗

— Isabella I

#concrete #distance #experience #firm #great

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind. ↗

— Dyan Cannon

#everything #exist #exists #mind #only