Please Understand Quotes

#1. Please understand I am in full rebellion against my own mind, that when I live, I live by impulse, by emotion, by white heat.

Anais Nin

#2. Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time.

Mod Sun

#3. Please understand nearly every concept I hold near and dear has been stolen from others much brighter and better than me.

Dan John

#4. When I talk about "creative living" here, please understand that I am not necessarily talking about pursuing a life that is professionally or exclusively devoted to the arts.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.

Seth Godin

#6. Please understand that we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

William Manchester

#7. Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

Jeff Smith

#8. My intent, here, is to tell our story in a dramatically truthful way. While the facts may be less than accurate, please understand that the emotion is true. The intent is true. And, dramatically speaking, intention is everything.

Garth Stein

#9. Now, please understand that I didn't want to do any of this crap. None of these choices were mine. Like kids across the nation I was caught in circumstances beyond my control, and I felt that my choices were bad, worse, and worst.

Mark Garrison

#10. Please understand. When I look at you as if you're crazy, it's not that I judge you for your insanity.

Marie Rutkoski

#11. And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you.

Dallin H. Oaks

#12. If I thought there was even a single shred of a chance you'd still be alive, then I would have destroyed the entire world to find you. You're my brother. I love you. Please understand that none of what happened was within either of our power to change.

L. H. Cosway

#13. Not - please understand me - that I was convinced that I had made a mistake; no, I was merely unconvinced that I had not made a mistake. I was, in other words, confused.

Mohsin Hamid

#14. Please understand, I am not saying that technology is unimportant. I understand that technology is important. But if we are just focusing on technology and investing in an IT manufacturing plant to come up with higher performance processing [chips], we will not succeed.

Satoru Iwata

#15. Please understand. Please forgive me.
I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.
Don't hate me.
I still love you.

Lauren Oliver

#16. Am I radiating openness? Do you feel the warmth of the springtime sun when I'm near? If so, please understand that sensation is actually my fiery disdain.

Lamar Giles

#17. Please understand and love me.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. I just wanted to live. I never wanted to hurt anyone. Please understand.

Genevieve

#19. Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

Dennis Prager

#20. Well, I've been waiting, I was sure
we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for
I think it's time to board another
Please understand, I never had a secret chart
to get me to the heart of this
or any other matter

Leonard Cohen

#21. Please understand this: there is no darkness inside us which is not entirely normal; no guilty secret we hold that is not the guilty secret of many. This is what it is to be human. Who, therefore, can judge?

Simon Parke

#22. Just don't talk to me about him, please! I love him, Melanie. I love him. He's not just a star, he's the whole fucking sky to me. He's the sun and every planet in this galaxy. It hurts me to think of him, don't you understand?

Katy Evans

#23. My eyes darted to her, dreading to see the pain I knew I would find. Please, Melanie, you have to know I only wanted this with you.
I couldn't say the words out loud, but I prayed she would understand, that she could see it in my eyes.

A.L. Jackson

#24. Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this

Lee Kuan Yew

#25. To tell you the truth - mind, this is strictly between ourselves, please; I shouldn't like your wife to know I said it - the women folk don't understand these things; but between you and me, you know, I think it does a man good to swear.

Jerome K. Jerome

#26. Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.

Johannes Kepler

#27. I am not asking you to understand, Papa. I'm asking for you to accept."
"Accept what?"
Me. Accept me, Papa. "My decision to live my own life as I see fit."
It is so quiet that I suddenly wish I could take it back. Sorry, it was only a terrible joke. I should like a new dress, please.

Libba Bray

#28. Please don't tell her i told you. I know how much you love her, Hardy, and i know the reason she didn't want you to know is because she loves you, too. I've never seen two people your age feel so deeply about each other. I understand you needing to know, but she would never forgive me.

M. Leighton

#29. It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? ( ... ) But please, when you see an opportunity ... ruin them

Veronica Roth

#30. Please don't worry. I will always come for you. I won't let you go until you understand that."
"Then I refuse to understand," she said.

Lauren Kate

#31. If you are a writer and you write/understand sarcasm please be thankful to the government and the masses.
Without their hard work and supreme idiotism it wouldn't have been possible.
You owe them the brutal sarcasm, they've earned it!

Himmilicious

#32. As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can't experience the state of non-thinking. If we can't experience non-thinking, we will not understand what our life truly is. Please realize this for yourself! Just sit.

Taizan Maezumi

#33. Be so good as to cease to cast yourself in fictions. Pinch yourself, or slap yourself across the face if that's what it takes, but understand, please, that you are nonfictional, and this is real life.

Salman Rushdie

#34. You are going through difficult moments of life. Times when you do not understand the ways of our world or the ways of our people. Hold on to yourself in these moments. These times will change. Calm will return to your being. Hold on to yourself. Please.

Avijeet Das

#35. Please do not understand me too quickly.

Andre Gide

#36. Henry. Please." I was on the verge of tears. "What's the matter with you? Have you lost your mind? Don't you understand what's going on?" He stood up, dusted his hands on his trousers.

Donna Tartt

#37. Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

Elizabeth Gilbert

#38. No one who is angry or shallow can repeat what they've said. The moment you ask a person to repeat, you have won the battle. You have put them on guard. So don't reply angrily and don't take any offense, just say politely, "Yes, I understand, but could you please repeat it?" With that, you have won.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#39. People! Please. Listen. Our life, our bodies are the most authentic clinical record ever! Why do you have to ask for any other one, alien, fake, distorted by illegible handwriting belonging to someone who has never been us and has never tried to understand us? Do you think that is right?

Igor Eliseev

#40. Hey, slow down... please speak clearly and understandable on the topic what happen!

Deyth Banger

#41. Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, continue to the end.

Daphne Du Maurier

#42. Damn you! Just ask me to wait and I will, ask me to understand that things will be difficult but that when this period is over, we'll be happy and in love and together. Please stop with the dreaded respect line. I don't want you to respect me. I want you to want me.

Lauren Weisberger

#43. The organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. So I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. Some people won't understand, but I don't give an account to some people.

Anne Graham Lotz

#44. As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.

Paul Emsley

#45. I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

Jane Fonda

#46. O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

Salman Al-Ouda

#47. Would you like to know your fatal flaw?' Eddie flushed with annoyance. He could have easily made a list of Hochman's flaws, enough to fill several pages. Still, he was curious. 'Please do tell.' 'You judge what you don't understand.

Alice Hoffman

#48. Oh that's right
Keep away from me Please give me a push
Don't let me understand you Don't realise me
Or we might tumble together
Depersonalized
Identical
Into the terrific Nirvana
Me you --- you --- me

Mina Loy

#49. I don't understand - why won't you talk to me?
You sit in the corner all day and write in your book and look at everything but my face. You have so much to say to a piece of paper but I'm standing right here and you don't even acknowledge me. Juliette, please -

Tahereh Mafi

#50. Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be.

Sarah Addison Allen

#51. I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or they're only working to please us, they're not going to be interested in school.

Rafe Esquith

#52. Please, let God understand why I'm doing this; and, Please, don't let there be a God if he sends all murderers to hell; and, Please, let something happen so I don't have to keep doing this.

Chris Dietzel

#53. If you're going to yell at me, do it in English, please. I'd like to understand the insult so I can frame an appropriately pithy response.

Chloe Neill

#54. Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it on me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do?

Lesley Howarth

#55. I can manage without anything, but never you. Not ever. Don't look like this, please. Don't look like you think it's the end. It's never the end for us. Nothing will break us, Ava. Do you understand me?

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#56. I understand that what you're doing when you call 911--it sounds so perfunctory--is announcing to strangers that you are losing the battle. I no longer have the strength, I no longer have the answers, the trouble is winning, and won't you please come help"?

Michael Perry

#57. Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.

Sarah Kane

#58. Do you understand that it's impossible to please God in any way other than wholehearted surrender?

Francis Chan

#59. Sato said softly, "Bottom-san, please to understand, if you call me 'motherfucker' again, I shall be forced to kill you.

Dan Simmons

#60. We can understand the sentiment you're saying to us
Oh,
But sensible sells so could you kindly shut up
And get started
At keeping your part of the bargain aw please
Little darlin'
You're killing me sweetly with love love love love
Love love love love

Sara Bareilles

#61. I want to taste you," he murmured, his wicked voice full of promises against her neck.
She nodded and let out a garbled moan that could have meant anything, but he thankfully seemed to understand she meant 'dear goddess, yes please'.

-Con & Leilani

Savannah Stuart

#62. There's something about you Anastasia, that calls to me on some deep level I don't understand. It's a siren's call. I can't resist you, and I don't want to lose you ... don't run, please - have a little faith in me and a little patience please

E.L. James

#63. I feel the animal within me emerging, Princess. It's raw and uncontained, but it wants to please you. If we wait ... " His chin dropped, his voice too. "I cannot hurt you, do you understand?

Laura Wright

#64. Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.

Albert Einstein

#65. Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

John Cleese

#66. Trials may come - and we may not understand everything that happens to us or around us. But if we humbly, quietly trust in the Lord, He will give us guidance and strength in every challenge we face. When our only desire is to please Him, we will be blessed with a deep inner peace.

Bruce D. Porter

#67. He studied her upturned face for a minute. "Please forgive me. I don't want you to hope. If there were any way - " "I know." She got to her feet. "I even understand." She walked briskly to the door. "I came down to get something for Rebecca. She must be wondering what happened to me.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#68. Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

Ricky Gervais

#69. Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

Sylvia Plath

#70. I understand," he said. "Please let me know." He meant it to sound patient and cooperative, but somehow it came out as abject. Rosa started to laugh. She put her arms around him, and he rubbed the smeared lipstick into her cheeks until it was gone. "How

Michael Chabon

#71. I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

Donald Miller

#72. As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.

Evangeline Lilly

#73. Can I ... I mean, do you mind if I sleep up here? If you don't, I, um, understand. I just - " "Yes." The word bolted out of me. "Yes, please. Maybe I'll be able to sleep if you're here.

Lilith Saintcrow

#74. Stay the fuck out of my head!"
Fuck. There's a word I understand.
"Yes, please.

Karen Marie Moning

#75. I am sorry for when I do it
hopefully one day you'll realise why.
Please do not be angry;
just understand that today I tried.

Isabel Aanya Leigh

#76. Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

Rod McKuen