#stan

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#even #finite #grasp #infinite #infinitude

I don't particularly like being pregnant. I like the baby at the end. Pregnancy is a very distant thing for me. I can't seem to believe there's really a baby there. It's such a miracle. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#being #being pregnant #believe #distant #end

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#before #composed #million #soul #stand

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#am #behold #curious #each #every

I write to understand as much as to be understood. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#i write #much #understand #understood #write

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#broad #clarify #conceptual #fit #i

We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal. ↗

— Serena Williams

#bodies #distance #fresh #goal #going

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#directors #good #heart #here #matter

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#big #circumstances #considerate #courteous #else

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#anyone #because #comedians #interesting #kind