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Quotes About Stance

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
~ Baltasar Gracian
If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.
~ Tim Ferriss
Whatever the theory, it is important to note that clinicians such as Kluft draw attention to the clinical error of insisting that all alters talk as one or that only the alter with the legal name should be validated. 'Such stances are commonly associated with therapeutic failure'.
~ Unknown
If we don't take a prideful stance about our opinions, then we are at liberty to change them. How often have we gotten stuck in performing something we really didn't want to do, because we had foolishly taken a prideful stance on an opinion! Very often we would like to have changed our mind or the direction in which we were going, but we got ourselves boxed in by having taken a prideful position.
~ David R. Hawkins
I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
~ Karen Handel
People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.
~ Jerry Della Femina
When religion is manipulated for political gain, faith loses its prophetic stance.
~ Jim Wallis
It is not the position you stand, but the direction in which you look.
~ Unknown
I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
~ Larry Wall
My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said Batter up,I didn't argue that I wasn't ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer to Mickey Mantle.
~ Dean Koontz
I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
~ George Smathers
out Johnson could do nothing beyond publicly register his opposition.
~ Unknown
passive victim stance and for others may be an active angrily fighting back state.
~ Daniel J. Siegel
The 'Post' seems to think my strong stance on illegal alien criminals will be a liability in my run for governor of Virginia.
~ Corey Stewart
It was a look of studied nonchalance which suited his toned body but was easily contradicted by the cord-tight tension of his stance. Jean Guy Beauvoir was loosely wrapped but tightly wound.
~ Louise Penny
I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.
~ Chris Matthews
I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.
~ John J. McLaughlin
relatively wide stance—about the width of my shoulders between my heels—and gradually narrow it as the clubs shorten and the swing force decreases, to probably only 6 inches with the wedge. I effect this narrowing simply by moving the right foot closer to the left. In that way I maintain a constant relationship of the ball to my left heel. As I narrow my stance, I also "open" it by setting my left foot
~ Jack Nicklaus
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Hope is a stance, not an assessment.
~ Frances Moore Lappé
the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats all took a pro-remain stance, and yet 40 per cent of Labour voters and 60 per cent of Conservative voters went against the leaders of the three parties to vote for Brexit.
~ Manuel Castells
He was also virulently pro-life, and Weather was strongly pro-choice.
~ John Sandford
I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending—if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.
~ John Scalzi
Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough