#stand

Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it's too late for them. Why do you want to go back with them? So you can keep up with the Joneses? To buy a gyro just like the Smith has? To listen to music with your pocketbook instead of your glands? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#feeling #music #understanding #men

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. ↗

— Renata Adler

#brings #fosters #heat #litigation #misunderstandings

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#hardest #income #income tax #tax #the hardest thing

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#achieved #attained #cannot #only #through

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#could #did #i #inflate #known

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#below #brute #brute force #force #hitting

Hier denkt man in einfachen mathematischen Kategorien. Wer arbeitet, schafft Geld heran, wer im Ruhestand ist, gibt es aus. ↗

— Núria Añó

#deutsche-sprache #german #humor #inspirational #leben

People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#criticism #double-standards #energy-healing #enlightenment #god

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ↗