#stand

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#beijing #china #desires #effort #enter

I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand? ↗

— Raquel Welch

#being #husband #i #i am #raquel

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#crowds #front #great #i #knew

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cloth #expensive #i #italy #just

Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#appointing #bench #constitutional #decades #federal

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#conservative #his #increasingly #judicial #leave

To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#end #hate #i #love #loving

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#dead #great #great work #moment #think

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#every #excellent #fought #good #i

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest