Understand Quotes

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

I want the white people to understand my people.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

I don't understand boys - just ask my husband.

I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.