#stance

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#american people #anybody #clear #i #instance

In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#appeared #circumstances #course #had #new

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#academia #also #carpet #course #courtroom

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. ↗

— Elihu Root

#continually #force #increasing #least #line

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#blind #considered #itself #man #resistance

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. ↗

— James Allen

#him #make #man #reveal

I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material. ↗

— Aries Spears

#came #further #great #greater #him

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance. ↗

— Alejandro Amenabar

#fast #horror #horror movies #i #i tried

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other. ↗

— Ben Chandler

#being #circumstance #either #hand #happy

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#covered #distance #human #human voice #never