#stood

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. ↗

— George Grosz

#beliefs #best #bitter #bitter end #brutality

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#marriage #me #never #personally #understood

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#approach #beings #choose #complicated #dash

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#approximate #been #commons #discovery #estate

I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all. ↗

— John Hawkes

#attractive #away #before #disappear #fame

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#controversial #individual #leader #means #never

And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited. ↗

— Betty Hill

#although #called #english #had #i

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#carrier #expression #help #idea #inherent

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. ↗

— Homer

#both #cup #distributes #ever #evil

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#advantage #changing #common #contribute #controlling