#stance

To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave. ↗

— Dana Hussein

#be brave #brave #circumstances #iraq #live

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#drove #even #hours #i #like

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#distance #god #greater #man #prayer

Resist much, obey little. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#resistance

The shortest distance between two points is under construction. ↗

— Leo Aikman

#construction #distance #points #shortest #shortest distance

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#american cities #assistance #call #cannot #cities

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions! ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#against #always #assistance #beauty #collaborator

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#big #big cities #cities #fired #franco

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ↗

— James Allen

#bound #circumstances #improve #men #remain

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#few #frequent #general #hypothesis #instances