#stand

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood. ↗

— George Takei

#certainly #country #family #father #flesh

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#expression #freedom #i #penalized #place

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#cease #explaining #go #shall #understand

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese. ↗

— Amy Tan

#chinese #english #got #her #i

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#civilization #firmly #gain #good #had

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#blood #cinema #cut #everywhere #hoses

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#brethren #god #i #i do #kill

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song. ↗

— Kate Smith

#every #grasp #important #meaning #meaning of

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#back #boom #capable #capacity #cripple

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#back #cold #danger #doing #jump