Stance Quotes

• This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Cute, Happiness

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• A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Mind, Aikido, Posture

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

  Robert Bork

  Religious, Believe, Views

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• There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

  John Roberts

  Church, Elements, Matter

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• The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

  Leon Kass

  Children, Abortion, Important

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• There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Stars, Order, Feelings

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Humility, Thinking, Curiosity

  "Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org. December 26, 2011.

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• And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

  Daryl Hannah

  Young Generation, Common Sense, Political

  "Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  Harold Bloom

  Teacher, Thinking, Trying

  Harold Bloom, Robert Moynihan (1986). “A Recent imagining: interviews with Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Paul De Man”

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• Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things. It is the mental stance you take as you face your day. It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness. It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you. The attitude of adventure will open things up for you. The world will become alive with new zest and meaning. You'll become more aware of the beauty everywhere. Nothing will seem unimportant. Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Attitude, Adventure, Zest

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• What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Healing, Fighting, Different

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• The secret to healthy conflict resolution isn't taking a 'you against me' stance. The secret is realizing it's 'us against Satan.' He's the real enemy.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Religious, Real, Healthy

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Apr 20, 2017

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• We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

  Andrew Solomon

  Kindness, Compassion, People

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Imagination, Waiting

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

  Bell Hooks

  Education, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.

  Michael Hudson

  Running, Military, War

  "Adam Smith Critiques the Deficit Reduction Commission". Personal website, michael-hudson.com. December 06, 2010.

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• According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

  Jay Leno

  Giving, Guy, Want

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• Hope is a stance, not an assessment.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Faith, Assessment

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• Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Rocks, Enemy

  "Some New Tactical Reflections". www.ncc-1776.org. January 15, 1998.

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• Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

  Emma Restall Orr

  Reality, Ideas, Mind

  Emma Restall Orr (2012). “The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature”, p.78, John Hunt Publishing

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• Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region. No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.

  Ali Khamenei

  Thug, Israel, Iran

  "Iran Leader Urges Destruction of 'cancerous' Israel". Friday sermon, edition.cnn.com. December 15, 2000.

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• Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Commitment, Views, Choices

  "After Virtue". Book by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1981.

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• Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you'll be fine. If you're not fine, at least you'll like what you see in the mirror.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Believe, Mirrors, Issues

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011.

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• You need to know a lot about what's going on, but when it comes to making the work, I take almost an anti-intellectual stance. You've got to be stupid enough, in some ways, to plunge into something that you have no idea what it's about. If you know what you're going to do before you do it, you just end up illustrating an idea.

  Tim Zuck

  Stupid, Ideas, Intellectual

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• Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started to sob about the dire repercussions of that war. As if wars ever bring pleasant repercussions. And on top of that, Azerbaijan adopted conceited stance and started to make demands as if anywhere in the world defeated aggressors are ever allowed to make demands.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  War, Conceited, Azerbaijan

  Remarks by President Serzh Sargsyan at the meeting with journalists from Diaspora, October 16, 2010.

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