Understand Quotes

Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.