Top 100 Quotes About Don't Understand
#1. You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.
Joel Osteen
#2. The F-bomb. It's everywhere. You hear it all the time. And I honestly don't understand what the appeal is over the word.
Mel Robbins
#3. People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.
Tiger Woods
#4. Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of impatience and say: "I don't understand
Anais Nin
#5. We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand why this matters. The evidence is in front of us, and we fail to take it in and say, "Now I get it. Now I understand."
Sylvia Earle
#6. I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me
am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?
Marie Lu
#7. People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#8. Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away.
Frank Lowy
#9. People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#10. If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.
Richard P. Feynman
#11. Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
Lewis Grizzard
#12. I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.
RuPaul
#13. Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine," he went on, "preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?
Aldous Huxley
#14. Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don't understand.
Jon Foreman
#15. Remember that most people, human or cryptid, don't like what they don't understand. They're not wired for that kind of compassion. Feel sorry for them, unless they form an angry mob and march on your house. When that happens, release the hounds. - Evelyn Baker
Seanan McGuire
#16. You shouldn't talk about things you don't understand. Which should leave you pretty damn quiet.
Rachel Vincent
#17. The witless destroy what they don't understand.
Loretta Chase
#18. Everything that the customer experiences is the product. This is something that both media companies and product startups don't understand.
Laura Busche
#19. You know people. Most of them don't hear anything. Those who hear - don't listen. A few who listen - don't understand. And those who could understand ... they don't care.
Bernard Werber
#20. People are afraid of anything they don't understand. When they understand, when they know the truth, they can do something about it.
Ann Weil
#21. And I still don't understand the purpose of a wedding. What could possibly induce two free beings to partner only with each other for the rest of their existence?
Helene Wecker
#22. It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.
Billy Bob Thornton
#23. I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
Kevin Powers
#24. Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.
Susan Brooks
#25. Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.
Ellen Page
#26. In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don't think I like reality very much. Principally, I don't understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
Shirley Jackson
#27. It's because they don't understand good sex has nothing to do with equality.
Nic Kelman
#28. Someday you're going to realize that there's more to life than making fun of everything you don't understand.
Chandler Klang Smith
#29. I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back ... I just don't understand it.
Ozwald Boateng
#30. I don't understand women at all.
Like how a women can pour boiling hot wax onto their upper thigh, then rip the hair out by the root ... and still be afraid of a spider.
Jerry Seinfeld
#31. I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?
Catherine Marshall
#32. I know you loved me. I just don't understand why you didn't love me enough to stay.
Sylvain Reynard
#33. People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking.
Steve Goodman
#34. You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.
Val Kilmer
#35. No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
Elsa Einstein
#36. Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don't understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal.
Christopher Bram
#37. I think we've always, as a species, been fascinated with stuff that we don't understand. Anytime someone can shed light on that, whether it's legit or just somebody's fantasy of what that stuff is, I think people take notice.
James Roday
#38. The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain
#39. Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.
Lou Rawls
#40. After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it. I like me better now than when I was young and skinny. I don't understand this extreme fashion for being anorexic-skinny. We forgot about women with curves - real women. We're not embracing that anymore.
Anna Netrebko
#41. I knew him, but I don't understand him.
Megan Hart
#42. I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
Pat Robertson
#43. I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.
Kurt Cobain
#44. We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.
Nainoa Thompson
#45. Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.
Marc Maron
#46. I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#47. What people don't understand about deer is that they're vermin. They're giant, furry cockroaches. They invade a space, reproduce like hell, and eat everything in sight.
J. Ryan Stradal
#49. Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand."
"Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.
Christopher Paolini
#50. My God is
the green tide in the spring leaves
the redness of cherries high in the air
the excitement of shooting stars
the song of birds in summer branches
the sunrise on a winter's morning
the name of everything we don't understand ...
William Of Ockham
#51. God's plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand.
Jerry Bridges
#52. Just because you don't understand or agree with something doesn't mean that it lacks merit.
Lisa Kleypas
#53. I still don't understand how someone can talk about some they barely even know.
Cassie Brode
#54. I don't understand how it's cheaper to buy a whole steak at the Price Club than spinach. How did that happen?
Jose Andres
#55. I don't understand water and gravity.
Camille
#57. You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die ... I just don't want to exist.
Rebecca McNutt
#58. I'm easy to understand even when i don't understand myself ...
Charles Bukowski
#59. People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.
Kobe Bryant
#60. This is rock 'n' roll, Mags. It don't understand discreet. - Julian MacAvoy
Toni Kenyon
#61. Of course, being angry is pointless. Unproductive. They don't understand yet. That they are all waiting for that one phone call that will change everything. That every one of them will feel like me eventually. Because someone they love will die. It's one of life's cruel certainties.
Cynthia Hand
#62. I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on. You don't understand how demanding that show is until you're on the inside. That is real work. Real work!
Wendy Williams
#63. My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question
Lyle Lovett
#64. No, Newt, I don't understand," Minho said, the frustration in his voice escalating. "We risked our necks to come to this place and you're our friend and we're taking you home. You wanna whine and cry while you go crazy, that's fine. But you're gonna do it with us, not with these shuck Cranks.
James Dashner
#65. What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came from. I can't accept the fact that the concept of art as our concept of humanity is expanding.
Lawrence Weiner
#66. Most people don't understand the Electoral College; they don't know why it exists.
Tom Golisano
#67. There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.
Richard Dawkins
#68. When people count on someone, the person they're counting on doesn't realise it. I mean - they might notice it, but they don't understand how seriously, how desperately, the other person's depending on them.
Shuichi Yoshida
#69. When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.
Dexter Gordon
#70. I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.
Maureen O'Hara
#71. Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
Carolina Herrera
#72. For me personally, as much as I don't understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry for them sometimes, I can't help but love them very much.
Stephen Chbosky
#73. I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.
Simon McBurney
#74. Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.
Grant Hill
#75. People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.
Roger Miret
#76. I pretended I was a Kez colonel pretending to be an Adran colonel," Olem said. "It was disturbingly easy."
"They didn't ask for papers or proof?"
"In this rain?" Olem gestured at the downpour. "You don't understand an enlisted man, sir. Nobody asks for bloody papers in this kind of weather.
Brian McClellan
#77. I don't understand you. You could have handed over the slave and been free. (Paden)
Freedom bought on the back of a loved one isn't worth shit. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#78. Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. The public doesn't really know me. Only people in my inner circle know me well. Others identify me by the beard, always mad, sweaty and that is today's image. People don't understand me, they are scared of me.
Vazgen Sargsyan
#80. Wisdom begins with the humility to say there's a great deal I don't understand.
Randy Alcorn
#81. When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
Don Bluth
#82. It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#83. I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.
H.G.Wells
#84. I think someone follows me. They do the most random stuff. I get a photo taken through a burger drive-through window and it's like, 'What?'. They always seem like they're six feet away. I don't understand. I'm walking around and I don't see anybody.
Robert Pattinson
#85. You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
Clarice Lispector
#86. If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#87. What I don't understand is fighting for somebody time and time again, and proving that you'll be there no matter what, and having them give up. Just like that.
Claire Contreras
#88. I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do?
Paul Prudhomme
#89. I don't understand what makes them come out like that!"
"Hunger," said Jem. "Were you thinking about blood?"
"No"
"Were you thinking about eating me?" Will inquired.
"No!
Cassandra Clare
#90. They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind.
Amelia Gray
#91. Effective leaders often have to act even when they don't understand all possible factors
Gerald M. Weinberg
#92. I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their own secret plan, even though we don't understand it .
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#93. The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.
Natalie Maines
#94. By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on the climate. So, like it or not, we're already messing with a system we don't understand.
Jeff Goodell
#95. People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.
Jessica Ennis
#96. Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.
Caitlin Stasey
#97. Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh ... I'm a man.
Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.
Billy Wilder
#99. For a guy who didn't expect a fan base whatsoever, I'm pretty stoked. People say they don't understand it, and I say that's okay. I don't think anyone can argue that I'm not trying to do my own thing at least.
Aesop Rock
#100. We'll talk later.
You don't understand. I have to talk now. I'll keep texting you. I can't help myself.
And I'll read every one.
Laurelin Paige
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