Understand Quotes
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I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.
Flannery O'Connor
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Whatever had made the Dean take such a fancy to him, a cowardly, selfish, obstinate, ugly old fellow like him? He would never understand it. He took the piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at that too. Faith in God. God. A word he had always refused. But the Dean had said, put the word love in its place.
Elizabeth Goudge
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Edward Victor Appleton
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You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.
Mikhail Lermontov
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I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
Marianne Williamson
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Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.
Fairfax Cone
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
Albert Einstein
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In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
Ellen Langer
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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
Mary Doria Russell
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Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.
Allen Tate
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To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.
William Macneile Dixon
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You say it as you understand it.
Friedrich Schiller
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I met a woman in Albuquerque and she came and hung out with me in the trailer. It was really just more to kind of really understand my biggest concern was always the interrogation scenes. Remember, that's why I really wanted to meet somebody because you see those scenes on TV so much.
Charlize Theron
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You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Rick Warren
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Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.
Bernard Lonergan
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
Flannery O'Connor
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When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.
Marianne Williamson
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You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.
Don Johnson
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I cannot understand why anyone would want to voluntarily give up an item like a rosary, Bible or photo of their child, or for that matter an extra pair of shoes, pants, shirt or jacket, these are pictures of how people and their personal belongings are treated. If someone wants to judge the ethics and morality of all this, it is up to them to decide what is right and what is wrong and, if they choose to do so, to act upon those feelings.
Tom Keifer Cinderella
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You have to be a prince to understand the people, and you have to belong to the people to understand the princes.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have a team, ... He kept the team in Houston. A lot of people don't understand that.
Craig Biggio
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If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.
Charles Dickens