#stand

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. ↗

— Max Frisch

#between #dealer #difference #horse #language

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. ↗

— Fred Frith

#ball #costumes #dressed #even #football

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#act #awake #comparison #doings #dream

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives. ↗

— David Frum

#choices #control #events #just #makes

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment. ↗

— David Frum

#people #process #punishment #understand #washington

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#beliefs #coming #control #know #must

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#cannot #gender #love #really #same

The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#good #itself #others #states #understanding

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. ↗

— Steve Martin

#another woman #break #break up #caught #i