Understand Quotes

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

I understand those who don't like me.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

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 suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.