#standing

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government. ↗

— John Boehner

#american #american people #checking #costly #drive

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life. ↗

— Black Elk

#bear #been #brought #chaser #days

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#complex #however #i #music #necessarily

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. ↗

— Cory Booker

#bedrock #choose #class #economic #empowered

What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#clearer #contribute #day #everest #happened

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#definitely #fear #feel #forward #hatred

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#individual #interest #talk #understanding #vain

Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#understanding #education

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#higher #love #national #ourselves #racial

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences. ↗

— John Denver

#believe #comes #differences #each #everything