#stood

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. ↗

— Ruth Park

#i #never #passion #storyteller #understood

I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair. ↗

— James Patterson

#exciting #exquisite #fang #fit #i

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him. ↗

— Ron Paul

#conservatives #early #government #him #just

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. ↗

— Karl Popper

#impossible #misunderstood #speak #such #way

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#behind #communicate #driven #educated #need

Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent? ↗

— Karl Rove

#bailing #bailout #bank #began #commentator

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly. ↗

— Todd English

#brussels #cook #how #know #misunderstood

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#father #grew #grow #grow up #hard

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know? ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #decisions #even #explain #i

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#achieved #development #however #peace #point