#stand

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#attracting #chance #desperation #good #good chance

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#attempting #bang #bangs #death #door

Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#life #obviously #problem #skins #teenage

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#almost #draw #even #extinguish #may

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. ↗

— Sam Houston

#alone #am #aware #i #i am

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#big #changed #clock #corner #exactly

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#ethical #hence #judgment #means #norms

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#comes #doing #feeling #folks #good

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#say #talking #understand #unless #use

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio. ↗

— John Hurt

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