#standing

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#astounding #batman #birth #bottomless #christopher

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#authority #body #distinguished #distributed #evenly

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beforehand #bottom #certain #experience #find

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#armaments #every #exists #fight #international

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#get #laughs #trying #understanding #you

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. ↗

— Joey Ramone

#against #am #being #going #grain

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible. ↗

— Henry Reed

#boundaries #challenging #dreams #expanded #our

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close. ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#come #cops #day #deal #every

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#line #magic #mountain #real #real treat

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#abstract #abstract thought #appear #been #characterized