Understand Quotes

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain.

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.

I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.