#standing

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#chosen #i #i think #jobs #just

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#been #certain #commitment #country #fresh

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#control #extends #extension #gives #greater

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#because #bipolar #good #good things #hate

We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#broaden #careful #compassionate #deal #more

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." ↗

— John Searle

#block #common #discussions #fancy #finds

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#caused #fact #greek #limit #meaning

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#i #lord #opened #recall #should

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life. ↗

— Anthony Perkins

#adventure #aids #competitive #did #ever

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. ↗

— Harry Reid

#common #common ground #compromise #even #extremists