#stands

Thailand stands at a crossroads. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#stands #thailand

Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball. ↗

— Phil Simms

#because #everyone #get #good #sometimes

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective. ↗

— David Simon

#came #detective #die #down #had

In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#federal government #formation #government #her #history

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#inner #need #outward #process #stands

How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#beauty

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#around #better #change #change things #courageous

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#banks #down #edge #forest #here

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#cardboard #create #exciting #exists #i

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#capitol #colonel #cruelty #kentucky #monument