#stood

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#backwards #forwards #life #lived #must

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. ↗

— Tom Allen

#been #bills #borrowing #cuts #essentially

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence. ↗

— William Ames

#efficiency #either #god #may #providence

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#asked #away #chair #dinner #down

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#countries #development #more #prerequisite #understood

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly. ↗

— Beryl Bainbridge

#children #could #discovered #get #got

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is! ↗

— Johnny Ball

#difficult #elegance #emphasise #how #mathematics

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#among #been #education #except #form

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#ever #hated #i #imperfectly #machine

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood. ↗

— Hugh Bonneville

#excluded #feels #lives #misunderstood #point