#stance

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#always #angels #assistance #constantly #friends

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#been #broken #definitely #proved #repeated

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#circumstances #culture #determines #family #feeling

But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

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So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

#begins #describe #distance #how #i

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold. ↗

— W. Eugene Smith

#am #another #being #distance #every

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment. ↗

— Sam Snead

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As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances. ↗

— Peter Snell

#career #circumstances #developed #gold #gold medal

Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #certain #certainly #circumstances #doctors

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#circumstances #doing #gives #hope #i