#stand

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#ambiguous #complain #entire #everyone #exactly

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women. ↗

— Robert Menzies

#enough #few #few men #honest #i

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on. ↗

— Crystal Chappell

#had #idea #no idea #olivia #understanding

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. ↗

— Aubrey de Vere

#memory #naked #stands #tombstone #weeds

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#behave #ceremony #feel #normally #obliged

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#audience #deaf #music #nothing #requires

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. ↗

— Ryan White

#attitudes #changing #could #education #faith

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth. ↗

— Maud Casey

#gods #mythology #understanding #age

If you know the why, you can live any how. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#understanding #art

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#capable #categories #divided #find #forgive