#stance

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#circumstances #i #i am #i do #know

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#distance #ear #eyes #impossible #laugh

We are just not made up to be middle distance runners. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#just #made #middle #runners #up

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#been #circumstance #costume #excuse #i

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#anything #circumstances #deal #how #know

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. ↗

— Donald Creighton

#character #circumstances #encounter #history #record

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#ask #continue #distance #explore #far

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitute #constructive #did #direction #federalism

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#circumstances #escape #especially #our #want