#stand

Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#stand-up #military

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing-advice #understanding

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#understanding #evil

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#probably #silence #understand #who #will

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#understanding #understanding

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#understanding

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#goes #head #heart #him #his

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#psychology #self-awareness #understanding #achievement

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#decision #man #once #stand #take

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#moving-on #understanding #memory