#stand

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#close #edge #going #i #i can

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. ↗

— Tom Waits

#go #learn #listening #made #make

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended. ↗

— Charles Vest

#being #being done #damage #done #expended

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#business #businessmen #capable #democracy #democratic

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen. ↗

— Linda Vester

#challenges #faith #happen #i #kind

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#depths #hard #i #i think #love

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. ↗

— James Thomson

#life #may #pictures #stand #statues

My favorite moments in the show are when I stand by myself and sing. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#i #moments #myself #show #sing

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#eat #feet #ground #hundred #i

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#away #comfortable #feeling #fly #ground