#stand

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ↗

— Eleonora Duse

#blade #blue #fields #fills #grass

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#must #naked #president #sometimes #stand

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around. ↗

— David Eagleman

#adult life #approach #around #essentially #i

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#arrive #catalogue #connected #doing #dry

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it. ↗

— Hanns Eisler

#knows #music #nothing #only #someone

It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#action #also #capture #determining #execute

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#depends #extend #finally #human #human life

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#bad #behind #convention #enthusiastic #even

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one? ↗

— Howard Fineman

#by the time #did #like #moment #oath

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities. ↗

— Guy Finley

#possibilities #present #understanding #your