Understand Quotes

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.