Understands Quotes

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

And so every one of us in the FBI, I don't care if it's a file clerk someplace or an agent there or a computer specialist, understands that our main mission is to protect the public from another September 11, another terrorist attack.

And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.

Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States.

'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system.

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.

We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at 5 a.m. every day to grow the food that we put on our tables.