#stand

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#been #beginning #great #i #myself

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#constitution #democracy #discipline #disciplined #freedom

We only understand that which already is within us. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#only #understand #us #which #within

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#care #extreme #extreme poverty #health #health care

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#appreciate #better #culture #death #i

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#being #circumstances #civil #civil society #departure

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#been #business #i #inferior #lead

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#accept #bitterness #could #deserve #did

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#culture #english #i #just #me