#stand

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes. ↗

— Desi Arnaz

#biggest problems #comedy #did #i #jokes

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#birds #hours #imitating #kindly #man

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#banks #be prepared #best #central #divine

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy. ↗

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

#decent #decent standard #enjoy #ever #i

Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#commitment #expectations #love #motivational #respect

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven. ↗

— Athanasius

#escaping #fellowship #god #heaven #judgment

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. ↗

— David Attenborough

#i #interest #just #just looking #looking

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. ↗

— Jane Austen

#husbands #opposition #understand #vain #will

Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this. ↗

— David Axelrod

#anyway #because #challenge #china #clean

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships