Understand Quotes

Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.

There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of winning the Olympics.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.

No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.

I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, but I understand that you get in more than seven minutes.

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.