#standing

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#conservative #fellow #history #standing #stop

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#effort #expect #kind #make #still

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#actor #actress #better #different #everybody

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way. ↗

— Arthur Blank

#certain #certain way #create #help #passion

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#international #leads #long #long run #motivated

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#away #cannot #close #door #even

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#dharma #know #neither #nor #nothing

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#any #classical #classical music #difference #film

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. ↗

— Bono

#africa #around #brigade #cans #continent

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. ↗

— Bono

#christ #made #person #scriptures #simple