#standing

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving. ↗

— Crystal Waters

#began #counts #dated #first #giving

Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid! ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#buy #day #i #line #me

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. ↗

— John Grisham

#beneath #big #big picture #book #card

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#central #certainty #concerned #culture #death

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constant #domination #feature #history #life

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team. ↗

— David Gower

#happy #hard #regime #results #team

Much learning does not teach understanding. ↗

— Heraclitus

#learning #much #teach #understanding

We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe. ↗

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

#detailed #discovery #down #larger #light

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#always #best #comedy #down #funny

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#down #feel #floor #high #high seas