#underlying

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht. ↗

— David Antin

#common #george #gives #i #i think

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much. ↗

— Jo Brand

#comedy #defensive #easier #general #general sense

Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been treating the symptoms. It's time we cure the disease and take care of the problems that are underlying our poor economy. ↗

— Joe Heck

#being #care #congress #cure #disease

I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#cardiovascular #difference #far #good #had

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#anger #argue #bone #consider #disagree

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. ↗

— Alan Watts

#common sense #confronting #culture #feel #identical

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction. ↗

— Eric Holder

#coincidence #crime #deal #dysfunction #got

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#architecture #combine #community #design #french