#stands

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#anything #committed #does #everyone #field

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it. ↗

— Arthur Cohn

#behind #distributor #film #means #nothing

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#ambiguous #complain #entire #everyone #exactly

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#every #man #mother-in-law #stands #successful

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. ↗

— Minor White

#chosen #enough #film #how #long

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#goes #head #heart #him #his

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#become #becomes #complex #heart #human

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#better #danger #encounters #hurricane #lee

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#independent #influence #outside #person #society

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ↗

— Mark Twain

#disappear #explained #mad #mysteries #remember