#stance

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every

At that time we were very definitely told that under no circumstances should there be any secret chapters or any other secrecy in the life of the Party, but that everything should be done publicly. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#different #general #grammar #inscriptions #instance

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#back #back up #car #considerable #distance

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#been #form #good #grasp #managers

And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#ample #assistance #decent #families #gangs

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. ↗

— Dougray Scott

#circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary circumstances #feeling #finds

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion. ↗

— David O. Selznick

#go #irene #me #mgm #opinion

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dream #merely #shadow #substance #very