#stood

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#electronic #felt #first #first time #go

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#few #go #loud #message #more

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#disappeared #emerged #everyone #existence #foundation

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#black sheep #family #i #me #mother

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#destination #destinies #differences #each #man

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done. ↗

— Alain Robert

#courts #discharged #done #every #every time

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#american history #barack #barack obama #friends #greatest

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#good #i #jazz #later #mainstream

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#century #could #george #human #human race

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#both #history #individual #life #neither