#stand

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! ↗

— Harry Hopkins

#damn #dumb #dumb people #excellent #foreign

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#child #conscience #cure #disease #family

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#believe #blossom #compelling #existence #fragrant

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#beautiful #easy #england #italy #living

I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise. ↗

— Leslie Easterbrook

#day #did #film #horrifying #i

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ↗

— Eleonora Duse

#blade #blue #fields #fills #grass

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#must #naked #president #sometimes #stand

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around. ↗

— David Eagleman

#adult life #approach #around #essentially #i

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#exactly #excited #i #interesting #letters

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more. ↗

— David Eddings

#bomb #bored #even #had #his