Quotes About Stance

Prayer is not primarily saying words or thinking thoughts. It is, rather, a stance. It's a way of living in the Presence, living in awareness of the Presence, and even of enjoying the Presence. The full contemplative is not just aware of the Presence, but trusts, allows, and delights in it.

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.

I think it is a more courageous stance to abandon honestly something which has been devalued by history instead of carrying it to the end in your soul.

Ok," he says. "First lesson." Noah broadens his stance, taking his place firmly on the embassy side of the threshold. "in the United States," he says. Then, with both feet, he leaps on to the sidewalk. "Out of the United States." Quickly, he jumps back toward me. "In the United States." Another jump across the threshold. "Out of the United States. In. Out. In --" "Is this the part where I hit you?

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

I never get involved in policy. Never.

I think in political life you can only know your position and stay in place, even though people always try to push you to one side.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.

We don't compete with the Grammys. The Grammys compete with us. They have taken the stance that anybody who performs on 'The American Music Awards' cannot appear on 'The Grammys.' I don't agree with that philosophy.

For a 7-iron, you never want the ball to be closer to your left heel than just slightly ahead of the mid-point of your stance. That's especially true if you're a tall player, like me.

Most tall golfers don't have a lot of success. You have trouble getting steep on the ball too much. Stance, posture, all those things can be bad.

People often say, 'I thought you were much taller.' So, I don't know. Maybe it's the way I stand or something.

Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

As soon as a man has chosen a side in war, he's already picked the wrong one.

The Chinese are welcome to invest in industries in Malaysia. But just as we would not welcome mass immigration of Indians or Pakistanis or Europeans or Africans into Malaysia, we have to adopt the same stance on Chinese immigration into Malaysia.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

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.

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.

capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.