#stand

How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think? ↗

— Katie McGarry

#courage #faking-it #stand-up-for-yourself #courage

When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was courageous or not today was pointless, empty. When compared to the fact that he might be dead tomorrow, everything was pointless. It just didn't make any difference. It was pointless to the tree, it was pointless to every man in his outfit, pointless to everybody in the whole world. Who cared? It was not pointless only to him; and when he was dead, when he ceased to exist, it would be pointless to him too. More important: Not only would it be pointless, it would have been pointless all along. This was an obscure and rather difficult point to grasp. Understanding of it kept slipping in and out on the edges of his mind. It flickered, changing its time sense and tenses. At those moments when he understood it, it left him with a very hollow feeling. ↗

— James Jones

#emptiness #pointlessness #understanding #change

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#sword #truth #understanding #your

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it. ↗

— Eric Lefkofsky

#business #customers #goods #how #internet

I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress. ↗

— Wen Ho Lee

#even #feel #i #i feel #long

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards. ↗

— Rasmus Lerdorf

#becomes #caring #i #standard #standards

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#evils #greatest #growth #hammer #i

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999. ↗

— Kenneth Robert Livingstone

#any #authority #ethical #exercise #functions

As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#also #been #clear #former #i

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#finally #forget #get #got #instrument