#stance

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. ↗

— Iris Chang

#certain #circumstances #dangerous #evil #only

'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it. ↗

— Jerry Ferrara

#almost #arguably #around #best #block

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#being #controlling #deliberately #felt #generates

Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#afford #air #another #driven #falling

By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line. ↗

— John Byng

#enemy #engage #form #going #great

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#circumstances #dark #easy #grave #job

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#circumstances #constantly #difficult #difficult people #making

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#clearly #dimly #distance #hand #lies

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#being #circumstances #civil #civil society #departure