Top 100 Understand Why People Quotes
#1. Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.
John DiMaggio
#2. I never understand why people have children and then insist on living as though nothing has shifted.
Christy Turlington
#3. I can't understand why people in Scotland rave about Darren Fletcher.
Roy Keane
#4. don't understand why people think that every young man ought to go down-town and work ten hours a day for the best twenty years of his life at dull, unimaginative work,
F Scott Fitzgerald
#5. A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.
Evgeny Morozov
#6. I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to walk away from it all.
John Hawkes
#7. Madness is a completely undervalued quality and I don't understand why people should hide it to conform to some boring version of themselves.
Christoph Fischer
#8. A lot of people really like Jeb Bush. I'm one of them. I think Jeb Bush is a great guy. He was a terrific governor in Florida. He's smart. He's articulate. So I can certainly understand why people would him an attractive candidate.
Mike Huckabee
#9. I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
Veronica Roth
#10. My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#11. I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.
Leslie Mann
#12. I don't understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.
Karl Pilkington
#13. The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary.
Ridley Scott
#14. I suddenly understand why people describe kissing as melting because every square inch of my body dissolves into his. My fingers grip his hair, pulling him closer. My veins throb and my heart explodes. I have never wanted anyone like this before. Ever.
Stephanie Perkins
#15. I can understand why people jump off bridges.
Larry Brown
#16. Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.
Eric Betzig
#17. I can never understand why people seem to think that growing up with unhappy parents is better than growing up with a happy single parent.
Sarah Morgan
#18. I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
Wanda Sykes
#19. I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
Tess Gerritsen
#20. I'll never understand why people just won't let others be who they are. It's not like it's affecting them in any way
T.J. Klune
#21. It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll distract you with some ice cream or something. And I don't know if that's always the best thing. But it's certainly - you understand why people do it.
Pete Docter
#22. I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.
Baron Vaughn
#23. It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
Linda Blair
#24. I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?
Andrew Cuomo
#25. I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#26. I don't really understand why people are so interested in me, personally. I'm just a curator. I'm just telling people things I think are cool.
Elise Andrew
#27. I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.
Kylie Minogue
#28. I never can understand why people take the time to leave a negative review on a book or piece of artwork. There are other ways for you to find outlets in the world.
K.L. Adams
#29. I understand why people might be interested. But I just don't talk about my personal life. It's a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life.
Anderson Cooper
#30. As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.
Lisa Loeb
#31. Wait a second," Clary said.
"I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.
Cassandra Clare
#32. One star breaks off from the others, shooting across the sky, a bright light trailing behind it, and I finally understand why people wish on dying stars. Because something always has to die for life to give birth to a new dream.
Kimberly Kinrade
#33. I'll never understand why people go to movie theaters to have conversations. Going to the movies to talk is like going to a restaurant to cook. The idea is that you have paid your money to have someone do something better than you can do it yourself.
Rita Rudner
#34. I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.
Frank Luntz
#35. I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.
Tucker Max
#36. I don't understand why people don't remember my name.
Paul Lynde
#37. I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
Jeanette Winterson
#38. I hate to sound cliche, but I understand why people love to cook. It's fun!
Jacob Young
#39. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
#41. I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.
Conor Oberst
#42. I completely understand why people are concerned about immigration. There's no silver bullet, no one thing you can do to suddenly deal with all the problems and concerns with immigration, and that includes leaving the E.U.
Theresa May
#43. I can't understand why people can't go on just being ordinary to each other even if they are in love.
Henry Green
#44. The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.
Lance Conrad
#45. Ellen had always loved the rain. She didn't understand why people rushed through it, avoided it and ducked out of it, but she was glad.
Shari Shattuck
#46. The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.
Tony Blair
#47. Theatre is my first love. I don't understand why people say that theatre can't give you money.
Lillete Dubey
#48. When it comes to kids, it's just not hard to get them healthy. I don't find it hard and don't understand why people find it hard.
Jillian Michaels
#49. I don't enjoy reality television at all. I have to say that I get it, though. I watch some of it, and I understand why people enjoy it.
Kristen Schaal
#50. I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.
Andy Serkis
#51. I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect', when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.
George Voinovich
#52. I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
Shonda Rhimes
#53. I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
Kaki King
#54. I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.
Marilyn Monroe
#55. I can totally understand why people say: 'I'm going to do this T.V. series so that I can buy a flat'. But you've got to see what's of value to you as an actor.
Andrew Scott
#56. I now understand why people sometimes describe the air as 'bitter cold'. The cold is not bitter. They are bitter about the cold.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#57. I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for [fame]. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.
Zach Galifianakis
#58. I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
#59. The goal then is to understand why people did not or could not act differently. People acted the way they did for very good reasons; we need to understand why the behavior of the people involved made sense to them at the time
Nancy G. Leveson
#60. People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
Dan Chaon
#61. I understand why people want to look up their friends - usually they want to see what people they've wanted to have sex with look like.
John Waters
#62. Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
Patricia Highsmith
#63. I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.
Holly Hunter
#64. We don't have that for the most part it is learned behavior and so the first part is we have to understand why people are behaving the way they are. Behavior is a result so we have to understand that before there is a result something is going on in here in the brain.
John Assaraf
#65. I don't smoke at all. I think that cigarettes are actually retarded. I don't understand why people do that to themselves.
Tyler, The Creator
#66. There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.
Mary Crosby
#67. I'm just like any other man. I understand why people become reclusive. One of my weaknesses is that I sometimes allow people in that shouldn't be in my life.
Peter Loftin
#68. I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom.
Bernard Hill
#69. The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.
Steve Coogan
#70. I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.
C. JoyBell C.
#71. I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.
Jaggi Vasudev
#72. I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.
Benjamin Clementine
#73. I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.
Ruth Ozeki
#74. I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.
David Lloyd
#75. As I've said before, I never understand why people ski down a slope to a bar and then go on a lift so they can ski down the same slope again. That's like walking to the pub on a Sunday, then going home and walking to the pub again. Madness.
Jeremy Clarkson
#76. He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.
Peter F. Hamilton
#77. I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
Mike Tyson
#78. I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.
Douglas Coupland
#79. I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances.
Alice Lowe
#80. A lot of Chinese don't understand why people in the West are critical of China.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#81. When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't actually know her for real.
Alison Jackson
#82. I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.
James P. Moran
#83. I don't understand why people enjoy different things than I do, so I'm going to make a passive aggressive comment about it.
Anonymous
#84. I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense!
Clay Aiken
#85. I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
Stephen King
#86. The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.
Kelly Reilly
#87. I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.
Penelope Wilton
#88. I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.
Julie Walters
#89. I'm not bashing people who write songs that are just 'get on the dance floor and party party', I understand why people need those songs too, but I don't really write lyrics like that.
William Beckett
#90. I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
Christiana Figueres
#91. It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.
Jon Crosby
#92. Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him.
Theodore Roosevelt
#93. I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
Julie Walters
#94. The existence of the Taliban, in my view, is a tragedy for Afghanistan. We as Americans need to understand our role in helping bring that tragedy about. So I think it's important to look at the stories about why these people are fighting.
Anand Gopal
#95. There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.
Dominic Cooper
#96. When I get home and people ask me,'Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie? I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the men next to you. And that's it. That's all it is.
Black Hawk
#97. People hate politicians. And I can understand why.
Alexei Navalny
#98. I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you ... " and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability.
C. JoyBell C.
#99. Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#100. I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
Edward Zwick
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