#standing

I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#believe #believed #deserves #everyone #i

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#common #communication #community #exist #extensive

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality. ↗

— John Hutton

#allow #disease #expanded #greater #higher

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation. ↗

— Tom Baker

#better #feel #give #good #had

The world only goes round by misunderstanding. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#misunderstanding #only #round #world

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#children #feelings #i #like #me

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world. ↗

— James Forrestal

#build #country #economic #foundations #leadership

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#age #begin #embrace #growth #improve

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. ↗

— George C. Williams

#biological #century #disappeared #foster #last