#understand

The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended. ↗

— Charles Vest

#being #being done #damage #done #expended

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#business #businessmen #capable #democracy #democratic

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen. ↗

— Linda Vester

#challenges #faith #happen #i #kind

People don't understand rural America. Sixteen percent of our population is rural, but 40 percent of our military is rural. I don't believe that's because of a lack of opportunity in rural America. I believe that's because if you grow up in rural America, you know you can't just keep taking from the land. You've got to give something back. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#back #because #believe #give #got

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. ↗

— Tom Waits

#go #learn #listening #made #make

All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning. ↗

— Tom Waits

#anything #else #find #get #just

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#also #created #film #language #only

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#always #breaking #first #i #i always

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#gave #i #over #people #polish

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. ↗

— Alice Walker

#best #could #expresses #extreme #gratitude