Alister E. McGrath Quotes
A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.Alister E. McGrath
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua -
I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
Aaron Paul -
If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Sam Abell -
I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
Halsey -
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
Yoko Ono
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
Walter Cronkite -
My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
Zach Galifianakis -
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg -
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Madeleine Albright -
I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
Radha Mitchell -
You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
Navid Negahban
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster -
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
L'Wren Scott -
For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Warren Buffett -
I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.
Naftali Bennett -
With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.
Nancy Reagan
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You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman -
Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek -
I can’t know what’s coming. I only know how to make myself feel ready for it.
Tim Howard -
It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.
Eve Arnold -
A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.
Alister E. McGrath