#stood

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#cut #development #feeling #foundations #ground

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#asked #became #could #democrat #did

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#last #long #longer #obligation #power

It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it. ↗

— Carl Hubbell

#ball #bat #been #could #funny

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact. ↗

— Janis Ian

#ago #asking #back #because #child

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#i #jack #jack kennedy #kennedy #man

I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama! ↗

— Nancy Keenan

#asking #barack #barack obama #bucket #conversation

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ↗

— Helen Keller

#lessons #life is a #lived #must #succession

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said. ↗

— Klaus Kinski

#dollar #freedom #i #maybe #nothing

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#atlantic #atlantic ocean #i #mean #men