#stance

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#any #circumstances #everybody #hard #harder

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#defensive #does #education #general #higher

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#circumstances #external #i #never #torturers

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise. ↗

— Patricia Richardson

#attention #believe #creative #creative ways #finding

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#distance #perspective #men

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#agreement-with-reality #circumstances #happiness #inspirational #life

I can't even take comfort in the quiet strength of pushing through circumstances no one would fault me for collapsing under. ↗

— Unknown

#circumstances #collapsing #comfort #hard #inspirational

In Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They played music, and people would go and listen to them! All along rue de Rivoli, as far as you could see from place de la Concorde, there were enormous swastika banners five or six floors high. I just thought, This is impossible. Imagine that someone comes into your home—someone you don’t like—he settles down, gives orders: “Here we are, we’re at home now; you must obey.” To me that was unbearable. ↗

— Pearl Witherington Cornioley

#nazism #world-war-ii #home

Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time...where no words abide. And others may speak freely, live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone else, but then there is you... you have no words for proof of reassurance, no tokens of professed love, but you have something. Something worth keeping. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#beyond-time #distance #inspirational-love #inspirational-quotes #something-worth-keeping

Persistence wears down resistance. ↗

— William J Federer

#logic #logical-thinking #persist #persistance #resist