#standing

We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#always #answer #anybody #asking #benefit

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. ↗

— Hal Abelson

#because #far #giants #i #others

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#been #does #right-wing #things #understanding

We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#entire #extremist #grapple #growing #international

When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#fond #fond memories #going #growing #growing up

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#always #college #educated #go #i

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. ↗

— James Baldwin

#admire #america #because #been #his

The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#existence #leonardo-da-vinci #life #matteo #post-mortem

? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them.” Margaret Bouchard ↗

— Ted Magnuson

#relationships #understanding #wisdom #life

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#revelation #understanding #love