Understand Quotes
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Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
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I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.
Dean Ornish
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I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.
Zoe Tapper
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People talk to dogs. Not that they understand. But maybe they understand enough.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
Vaclav Havel
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Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.
Madeleine Albright
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A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi
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My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
Uzo Aduba
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I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration.
Abraham Lincoln
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A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.
Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene
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I've spoken with (Martin) about this and I understand what happened here...
W. H. Murray
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
Zach LaVine
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In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
Barry Watson
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I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
Paloma Faith
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I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
Eddie Marsan
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I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
Karl Kraus
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And I missed it by two feet. It makes me understand and appreciate what the ball does do on its way into the plate.
Joe Mays
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Alfred Einstein
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Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
Walter Kirn
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Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
Manuel Puig
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We don't care if you understand us.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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If you break down most rock songs and look at the lyrics on a piece of paper, it's all about melody. It's all about presentation. And a lot of bands are really great, but you can't understand a word of what they say.
Zac Brown Band
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg