#stance

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences. ↗

— Peter Singer

#be different #best #circumstances #consequences #differences

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. ↗

— B. F. Skinner

#best #circumstances #failure #may #mistake

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface. ↗

— Christian Slater

#between #bit #done #films #i

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#distance #laughter #people #shortest #shortest distance

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 think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#been #days #every #i #i think

If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance, eating right to feel great and energetic. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#concentrate #eating #energetic #family #feel

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#biography #book #circumstances #events #every

People keep saying I've changed. I used to be confrontational. But I'm - I haven't changed. It was - it's just that circumstances have changed. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#circumstances #confrontational #haven #i #just

I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#days #distance #emotional #every #exchanging