#stood

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#creative #creative life #good #humanity #i

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#anything #common #course #daily #grind

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#beginning #character #comedies #did #every

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept. ↗

— Randall Terry

#george #george washington #god #kept #place

Women are made to be loved, not understood. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#made #understood #women #women are

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#framework #lifestyle #order #principle #sound

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#christians #corruption #grow #innocent #old

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#attention #better #calling #explained #human

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#helpless #make #misunderstanding #oneself #others

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#bad times #been #came #doing #friend