#stance

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#distance #i #i wish #more #myself

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago. ↗

— Eric Carle

#book #certain #distance #done #how

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#moment #resistance #temptation #victory

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#audiences #certainly #cruise #elements #film

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#circumstance #circumstances #everyone #home #ignorance

We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain. ↗

— Lonnie Earl Johnson

#because #circumstances #ease #feeling #i

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. ↗

— Richard Pound

#accidental #active #cheating #complex #complicity

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#circumstances #determine #go #merely #present

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#lies #lying #resistance #shit #art

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#art