#stance

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#am #believe #circumstances #i #i am

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#because #been #culture #different #different kind

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#any #back #connects #dismiss #distance

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#bring #circumstances #constrained #out #you

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#calls #creative #current #education #innovations

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#both #controlled #dogs #environment #indoors

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#anywhere #cannot #distances #geographic #horizon

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. ↗

— Maimonides

#cannot #degree #distance #each #every

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#become #circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #had

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. ↗

— Og Mandino

#distance #immeasurable #late #too #too late