Top 100 Doesn't Understand Quotes
#1. I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
Cameron Diaz
#2. He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that we keep them because we might want to read them again. And because they remind us of how we felt when we read them.
Paula Marantz Cohen
#3. We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.
Anneli Rufus
#4. It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least
Voltaire
#5. It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.
Anton Chekhov
#6. These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them.
William Shatner
#7. I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.
Mary Pratt
#8. Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
Raghuram G. Rajan
#9. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
Tom Morello
#10. Even if my neighbor doesn't understand my religion or understand my politics, he can understand my story.
Paulo Coelho
#11. So instead of investing your time in a passion, you've sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn't understand you. That's the problem with our society. And what's the reward? Go home and get a big TV.
Joe Rogan
#12. Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
Bob Goff
#13. Hurrah for Peace, Frenchy, and the simple life! Where a man can live comfortably and runs no danger of being killed for things he doesn't understand - there is his real homeland!
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
#14. Anyone who hates something feels threatened by it. A guy who says he hates feminism (a) doesn't understand or know feminism, and (b) is scared of powerful women. Most attacks come from fear.
Neil Strauss
#15. Love doesn't know gender. Love doesn't understand what used to be or what is; it only understands what could be and what should be.
T.E. Ridener
#16. No, Lucy. Your mother doesn't really love men. They are a symptom of her obsessive quest of finding somebody who will make her whole. She doesn't understand that she has to make herself whole.
Patricia Cornwell
#17. People who discriminate doesn't understand that they are a stranger to others.
Jestoni Revealed
#18. If Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand something, it's not defeat. It's not even something he has to accept. It's merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.
Sarah Lacy
#19. If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner.
Walter B. Barbe
#20. To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.
Melissa Leo
#21. What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
Mike Birbiglia
#22. The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
Paul Cezanne
#23. That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out; I wear them because I have to. It's me.
Ellen Schreiber
#24. My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
Zach Galifianakis
#25. I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.
Jim DeMint
#26. Leaving them alive would've been a sign of weakness, and Tatiana expects weakness from the 'emotional' races. What the bitch doesn't understand is that rage is an emotion, too.
Nalini Singh
#27. I think he lives in such a rarified bubble these days, he doesn't understand what reality is any more.
Shane Warne
#28. For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
Cynthia Occelli
#29. This customer service person doesn't understand that this bill was paid and I am not going to pay it again.
Jon Jones
#30. Quirky is what a guy would call a girl he doesn't understand.
Kat Dennings
#31. When a person doesn't understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn't search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn't understand.
Anton Chekhov
#32. She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn't understand you it's someone who understands perfectly, before you've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.
Frank Crowninshield
#34. Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.
Fran Drescher
#35. Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
Ben Carson
#37. If he's alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn't understand that
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#38. One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.
M. Russell Ballard
#39. He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.
Pittacus Lore
#41. She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature
that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.
Christopher Moore
#42. It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.
Javier Cercas
#43. She doesn't want me to own her. (Dante)
Well, the Simi doesn't understand that. Owning's not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. Kayden can't love me because he doesn't understand love. He understands pain and hurt and disappointment, but not love. I know right then that I can't tell him how I'm feeling, but I can show him.
Jessica Sorensen
#45. I wish I could talk to twenty-three-year-old Sarah again. Ten-year-old Sarah doesn't understand my struggle. She hasn't come to this yet. She hasn't come to the place where my present means nothing but my future is all everyone talks about. Twenty-three-year-old
A.S. King
#46. What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice Walker
#47. Incumbent Congresswoman Bustos has proven during her time in Washington that she doesn't understand or feel the pain of middle class families. We need a true representative fighting for us in Washington, and incumbent Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has refused to act.
Bobby Schilling
#48. There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises
Carl Sagan
#49. Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.
Chuck Todd
#50. The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.
Rob Bell
#51. Only someone who doesn't understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can't be graded, because it's going to mean something different to everyone. You can't apply a mathematical absolute to art because there is no one formula for self-expression.
Kevin Smith
#52. Some of this is bureaucratic ineptitude and a great deal of this is an administration that doesn't understand the urgency of the situation, and therefore this [Barack Obama] administration has not reached out actively to the private sector and said, we need help.
Carly Fiorina
#53. When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
Oscar Wilde
#54. Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.
Mariano Rajoy
#55. Most people need, at least, a very strong ethical training. They tend to lack basic moral. And it's a waste of time to teach very important universal rules to someone that doesn't understand the meaning of helping others or feeling empathy for them.
Robin Sacredfire
#56. Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.
Reza Aslan
#57. Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.
Marguerite Duras
#58. If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.
Nigel Hamilton
#59. My person says I don't understand cause and effect. That's not true, I get it: roll in the mud, you get the bath. But what she
doesn't understand is, sometimes it's just plain worth it. - Belle, Dog Only Knows
Terry Kaye
#60. God doesn't understand you killing innocent men. God doesn't understand. I don't understand and I don't want to understand.
S.A. David
#61. In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
Cat Stevens
#62. And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.
Regina King
#63. Help! The customer service representative doesn't understand my problem.
Jon Jones
#64. I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
Anne Ford
#65. My mother is a very strange woman ... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.
Egon Schiele
#66. I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn't understand,
because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him.
Marta Acosta
#67. Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one choice: to be the tyrant over or the slave of woman.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#68. Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
George Jean Nathan
#69. This is the part that Anden doesn't understand as well as I do, even if he knows Day's past on paper - he still doesn't know Day, hasn't traveled with him and witnessed the suffering he's gone through.
Marie Lu
#70. He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn't understand tea at all.
Rachel Caine
#71. A child doesn't understand a hammer until he's mashed his finger at a nail.
Get up and stop whining, maggot! You have forgotten the face of your father!
Stephen King
#72. The demons exist. If they don't find you, you create your own. Fear is there. It never fades. But know that you never have to be alone. Never doubt yourself, just because everyone else doesn't understand. There's an entire kingdom out there. Hold on to that image. Be
Michael J. Seidlinger
#73. STEELE MARKOV
I'm trapped. In this vampire body. In a world that doesn't understand me. I don't want immortality ... I want my freedom.
Fangs in the Night scene 5, page 24
Fierce Brothers Studios
Jenny B. Jones
#75. A person who doesn't understand both sides of an issue can't relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.
Daniel Willey
#76. Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand
Robert Allen
#77. The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He's also made some statements suggesting he doesn't understand or opposes network neutrality.
Marvin Ammori
#79. You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#80. But Harley has always been this way, for as long as I've known him: he thinks ignorance is the best way to protect someone, and he doesn't understand that what we imagine is often worse than the truth.
Beth Revis
#81. They think he doesn't understand. That he can't see. They can't see him.
M.R. Carey
#82. She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers
#83. There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#84. First tweet, best tweet, I always think. I try not to work them too much or else they get Pie Dough Disease, which is where the dough has been to too much college and doesn't understand that it is dough anymore and refuses to be shaped. Pie Dough Disease! Poems get that too.
Patricia Lockwood
#85. She doesn't understand why I'd want to go by the name of some middle aged van driver when I could go by a pretty name like Freda. I told her I like to be economical with syllables.
L. H. Cosway
#86. The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.
Anurag Kashyap
#87. He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you.
Margaret Atwood
#88. No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
Stanislaw Lem
#89. When you tell a man how you feel, most of the time he doesn't understand what you're talking about. You'll probably just confuse and frustrate him.
Sherry Argov
#90. Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.
Nicholas Hoult
#91. And she doesn't understand why he doesn't want to put out his medal like a trophy. And he can't tell her that he liberated Europe with a spade.
Jon McGregor
#92. The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.
Dennis Rainey
#93. My family doesn't understand trying to chase your dreams because they were all about survival.
Cristela Alonzo
#94. Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!
E. M. Forster
#95. If someone doesn't understand the importance of sensitivity readers, chances are they may need them the most...
Kira Hawke
#96. The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
Max Frisch
#97. It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.
Donna Tartt
#98. He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.
Eugene O'Neill
#99. There is no such thing as a miracle. A miracle is just what somebody else doesn't understand. If we went back into the Stone Age and we lit a match, they'd say, "Ahh miracla, miracla!"
Frederick Lenz
#100. Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well.
Steve Earle
