#stance

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

#alliance #art #between #circumstance #ecstasy

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#closer #distance #greater #look #looks

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#circumstances #content #could #difficult #difficult circumstances

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. ↗

— Mark Twain

#circumstances #denied #even #prayer #profanity

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#distance #governed #governments #their #weakening

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#distance #marathon #other #run #runners

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#better #could #doctrine #experiences #expression

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#actions #character #choose #circumstance #deal

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know? ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#band #down #goes #his way #horn

As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#always #asked #assistance #been #businesses