Understand The Quotes

#1. never held a book before and reverently turned the pages, looking at the incomprehensible print and wishing she could understand the meaning of the words.
Henri drifted close to peer over her arm. "What's that?"
"A book. There be stories in here.

Debra Holland

#2. There is something out there which is difficult to be saw and understand. (The Ring 1)

Deyth Banger

#3. There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.

Francoise Mouly

#4. Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.

Nathaniel Branden

#5. It is difficult for me to understand the tragic accounts of troubled marriages that come to me.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#6. We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#7. Music is a mantra that soothes the soul ... something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music.

Michael Jackson

#8. Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

Maya Angelou

#9. I think it's very difficult in the first go-round for congressional people and political people to understand the linkages that exist between us and the rest of the world. That we're not insular anymore.

Henry Kaufman

#10. I don't really understand the point about carping about every casualty, every bombing, every death. War is hell. That's why people say war is hell.

Ann Coulter

#11. I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

Simone Elkeles

#12. I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

Dan Quayle

#13. Never expect everyone to understand the decisions you make because no matter how good it is, it will sound crazy to someone.

N.K.David

#14. It seems obvious that both the religious and the irreligious are capable of varying degrees of tolerance or intolerance, benevolence or malice, depending on how they understand the moral implications of their beliefs.

David Bentley Hart

#15. Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#16. The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.

Ameen Rihani

#17. I have spent twenty years trying to understand the look in her eyes. Was it love or hatred, contempt or pity, bewilderment or understanding? I shall never know.

Frederick Forsyth

#18. Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.

Bruce Lee

#19. I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

Donald J. Trump

#20. I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Sibel Edmonds

#21. I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't understand the logic in being frustrated with a system, so you choose to be a part of the reason why the system is so frustrating. If everybody voted, it wouldn't be this way.

Andrew Aydin

#22. The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.

Steven A. Cohen

#23. I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Pia Zadora

#24. When we recognise that reflective processes are no more outside the causal net than unreflective processes, and that they are bound by similar constraints, we may come to understand the nature of reflection for the first time.

Hilary Kornblith

#25. The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who were critics just didn't understand the works at all. I was sorry about that, but it didn't weigh on my mind a bit.

William Eggleston

#26. I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don't sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.

Ray Dalio

#27. Personal responsibility for everything is the hallmark of an enlightened being. If you blame others, bad luck or the Universe/God for your difficulties, you clearly do not understand the Principle of Oneness. You are in charge and responsible for everything. Embrace your power and make no excuses.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#28. You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck.

Michael Frayn

#29. Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believe that women herself must do this work, for women alone understand the height, the depth, the breadth of her degradation.
- Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#30. As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

Chadwick Boseman

#31. Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

Kenneth Rogoff

#32. I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.

William Joyce

#33. I don't think of myself as a feminist, but if someone calls me a feminist icon, that's fine. I've always stood up for women and myself in general. I have a great love and respect, because I have had beautiful sisters, aunts and my grandmas, but I love men. I totally understand the nature of men.

Dolly Parton

#34. We should understand the Constitution as the founders meant that it should be understood. We can do this by reading their words about it, such as those contained in the Federalist Papers. Such understanding is essential if we are to preserve what God has given us.

Ezra Taft Benson

#35. It's a great asset to you, on your first film, to bring some people with you from the television world because they understand the speed that you have to work with to get your grand ideas down.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#36. I don't understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it.

Douglas Coupland

#37. My grandfather pioneered exploration of what he called 'our water planet,' then my father sought to understand the human connection, and now, as part of the third generation, I'm dedicated to not only raising awareness but also to empowering people to take action.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#38. It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not only contribute to ourselves, our family, to our communities, etc. - you also contribute to the basic development and evolution of humanity.

Rusty Schweickart

#39. No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

George Sand

#40. Dear god, it is years since I've prayed.
I understand the birds are holy.
I understand the body leads us to love, or

this is one way of knowing the world.

Stacie Cassarino

#41. When we understand the best way to achieve all our goals is to assist others in achieving their goals, we will find the key to lasting happiness.

Neale Donald Walsch

#42. If you want to understand poetry,
You have to go to its origin,
If you want to understand the poet,
You have to go to the Poet's home.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#43. Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

Raymond Arroyo

#44. It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.

Steve Jurvetson

#45. The best is perhaps what we understand the least.

C.S. Lewis

#46. Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Malcolm Forbes

#47. I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

Narendra Modi

#48. You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

A.G. Howard

#49. And though you understand the pecking order and respect the judge - and even if the judge says "Great argument, Counselor Kaling, the court concurs" - you also just want to not have to plead your case all the time. I wanted to be the judge, jury, and executive producer. (See what I did there?)

Mindy Kaling

#50. I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

Pedro Martinez

#51. I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

Spike Jonze

#52. None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Pearl S. Buck

#53. It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other.

Justo L. Gonzalez

#54. There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#55. To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

Lao-Tzu

#56. I know most people want others to have good lives, and, when they understand the situation, they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings, I believe, are most admirable.

Daoud Hari

#57. Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

Ed Parker

#58. Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

Al Pacino

#59. We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#60. We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

Stephen Jay Gould

#61. Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

Isabelle Huppert

#62. Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

V.S. Ramachandran

#63. I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

Eddie Huang

#64. Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

Janny Wurts

#65. I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Chuck Schumer

#66. I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it.

Mark Boyle

#67. I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

Paul Bremer

#68. I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Thom Mayne

#69. To understand love, use the heart, not the brain.
To understand the mind, use the love, not the brain.

Debasish Mridha

#70. If you want to experience dramatic growth within your organization, you must truly understand the relationship between profit, growth, longevity, customer relationships, employee empowerment, and customer service.

Anonymous

#71. In polite society what you say to an attractive woman who is dressed in a way that makes you understand the power of biology is, "You look nice.

Joe R. Lansdale

#72. If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.

Jimenez Lai

#73. Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Kristin Hannah

#74. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors intend. The job of reading is to see into other people as we see ourselves.

John Green

#75. She took her leave and he wondered what that discussion had really been about. He knew he could live another hundred years and still not understand the workings of a woman's mind.

Terry Spear

#76. In the past days, she'd come to understand the importance of upheaval. The tallest mountains were created by violence and chaos; like them, a woman's independence was born of fire.

Kristin Hannah

#77. As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#78. Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

Tom Peters

#79. I thought that loving someone acted as a kind of protective measure, like they'd understand the scale and intensity of your feelings and act accordingly. That seemed fair to me, as if fairness were a measure the universe cared anything about.

Emma Cline

#80. There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

Brian O'Driscoll

#81. That night Ana Iris and I go to a movie. We cannot understand the English but we both like the new theater's clean rugs.

Junot Diaz

#82. There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

James Mercer

#83. Look a pig in its eyes, and understand the truth behind bacon.

Mango Wodzak

#84. I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.

Tom Hanks

#85. As you understand the game of football, you understand that it is about wins and losses.

Tyrone Willingham

#86. It was not so difficult to understand the warped view the Azadians had of what they called "human nature" - the phrase they used whenever they had to justify something inhuman and unnatural

Iain M. Banks

#87. Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.

Girdhar Joshi

#88. I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

Ksenia Solo

#89. The secret of success is to understand the viewpoint of others.

Henry Ford

#90. When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

Simon Van Booy

#91. I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

Sarah Thornton

#92. There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Ken Kesey

#93. God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

W. H. Auden

#94. There is no essential self that lies pure as a vein of gold under the chaos of experience and chemistry. Anything can be changed, and we must understand the human organism as a sequence of selves that succumb to or choose one another.

Andrew Solomon

#95. Meet your obligations. But obligations never prevented anyone from following their dreams. Remember that you are a manifestation of the absolute, and do only those things in your life that are worth the effort. Only those who do that will understand the great transformations that are yet to be seen.

Paulo Coelho

#96. I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.

Eddie Huang

#97. From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Donnie Yen

#98. Change is important, but if you can't really change it, just keep calm, understand the situation and go through it with a good heart! Time will surely speak with time!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#99. I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.

Jim Parrack

#100. I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.

Paul Bettany