#stance

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#back #deal #distance #event #gives

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise. ↗

— James Newman

#even #extremely #feeling #may #otherwise

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#defect #evil #excess #only #own

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#dirt #experience #found #i #less

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#children #college #know #leave #life

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#any #church #circumstances #does #every

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years. ↗

— Sigrid Undset

#i #into #myself #resistance #rolled

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. ↗

— Mark Oliphant

#gunpowder #hair #i #kitchen #kitchen table

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#any #captivated #child #material #me

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#between #billions #border #border security #congress