#word

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." ↗

— John Searle

#block #common #discussions #fancy #finds

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#also #always #certain #critical #fair

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#another #another way #different #language #learning

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing? ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#acts #alone #constitute #crime #empowered

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth? ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #merlin

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#better #heard #our #silent #speak

Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries ↗

— Robin Craig Clark

#inspiring #inspiring-authors #inspiring-books #inspiring-quotes #inspiring-words

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#about #back #degree #desperate #far

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. ↗

— John D. MacDonald

#change #cheat #conditional #image #inner