#stance

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ↗

— Alan Turing

#distance #done #needs #only #plenty

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#find #get #look #make #people

People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#people #show #substance #think

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#citizen #discipline #feel #first #formed

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#american dream #between #distance #dream #i

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California. ↗

— Robert Stack

#book #california #comparable #desert #find

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#circumstances #detached #electrical #electron #even

Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team. ↗

— John Starks

#circumstances #could #fortunate #grant #happen

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#been #defensive #especially #heaven #instances

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality