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“Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.”

Ifs Looks Fall Figures Position Standing

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.”

Character Stories Novel Position Standing Furniture Tedious Duration

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.”

World Dream Success Artist Secret Position Standing Artistic Faculty Twins Gifted Selective Mediators

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.”

Men Long Stills Done Young House Given Known Subjects Position Politician Married Clothes Standing Careful Compromise Young Man Given Up Fitting Gout

Book:The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

Source: The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works

“I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should all be talking to each other about what we think is important - whether we're in politics, or whether we're checking out at a grocery store. We shouldn't put walls up between each other.”

People Thinking Feels Should Important Talking Position Wall Standing Stores Groceries Grocery Stores Checking Out Walls Up

Author:Dave Matthews

“I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad.”

Position Standing Coaching Queensland

Author:Damir Dokic

“One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.”

Men Goal Behinds Position Speech Standing Drunk Making Love Life Goal Prettiest Bridesmaids Ballers

Author:Aziz Ansari

“Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.”

Position Standing Where You Are Insperational

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.”

Doe Eye Artist Force Vision Tree Position Standing Flow Roots Depth Currents Humble Command His Eyes Crowns Overwhelmed Transmit Trunks Sap

Author:Paul Klee

“When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times.... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.”

People Thinking Men World Said Enough Young Causes Enjoy Position Wind Cold Tough Standing Blow Weather Hats Exposed Sail Impatient

Author:E. B. White

“An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.”

“To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.”

“He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)”

People Way Has Beens Different Hands Might Wanted Moving Turns Difficult Position Arms Sitting Standing Window Different Ways Might Have Been Different Peoples Pillow

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.”

People Ends Shows America Position Weapons Gun Standing Safety Backgrounds Checks Instant Voting Assault Consensus Bans Loopholes Assault Weapons Gun Safety Background Checks

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends.”

Ifs Want Feels Humans Looks Ends Moments Stories Bigs Human Beings Interesting Position Civilization Lucky Standing Witness Very Interesting

Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto

“With being an Avenger there's not really a hierarchy. Everybody gets to make decisions, everybody's put in a position to save the day as opposed to standing there while one person flies in and saves the day and you're like, "Good job!" Avengers is really a team effort.”

Persons Jobs Decision Effort Team Position Standing Good Job Hierarchy Standing There Avengers Team Effort

Author:Anthony Mackie