#stand

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#exist #faster #going #helpful #i

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. ↗

— John Searle

#business #car #line #machine #nothing

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#afghanistan #family #understand

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#creative force #death #force #highest #highly

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#come #empirically #harm #i #photographs

I understand the process of politics and the game of television. ↗

— John Sununu

#i #politics #process #television #understand

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#congress #different #different kind #dollars #essentially

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end. ↗

— Diego Maradona

#end #i #makes #national #national team

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days. ↗

— George Tenet

#careful #days #difficult #discussion #hear