#stands

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#antithesis #i #i am #lot #stand

A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#editor #good #meddle #much #talking

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

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#carelessly #change #cigarette #especially #even

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. ↗

— John Adams

#ago #better #better understood #four #government

The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#direction #government #important #important thing #majority