Understand Quotes
-
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
Manuel Puig
-
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
-
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali
-
I love a lot of people, understand none of them.
Flannery O'Connor
-
By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
Harrison Salisbury
-
What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?
Harold Rosenberg
-
You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
A. S. Byatt
-
New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.
P. J. O'Rourke
-
I've spoken with (Martin) about this and I understand what happened here...
W. H. Murray
-
There is always magic to be summoned at any point. I love to live in a world of magic, but not a fake world of magic. We all really basically have a lot of magic... It’s only those of us who choose to accept it, that really understand it. It’s there for everyone. That’s the only thing that I feel I am able to give to people and that’s why I know that they respond to me because I try to give them only their own magic... not mine, but theirs.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
-
Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything.
Eric Stoltz
-
I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
Dan Quayle
-
It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.
George P. Bush
-
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.
Napoleon Hill
-
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
-
We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.
Wendy Kopp
-
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
William Faulkner
-
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
-
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
-
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
Barbara Kruger
-
If only you saw what I could see, you'll understand why I want you so desperately. Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe you don't know, you don't know you're beautiful.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction
-
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