Understand Quotes
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But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Ernest Holmes
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I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.
Alan Trammell
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Ven you read the speeches in the papers, and see as vun gen'lman says of another, 'the Honourable member, if he vill allow me to call him so' you vill understand, sir, that that means, 'if he vill allow me to keep up that 'ere pleasant and uniwersal fiction.'
Charles Dickens
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I like to do things that frighten me. When I’m afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, ‘I should do it. If I don’t do it, no one will do it for me.
David Grossman
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And I felt so foreign, lying there, the wind howling outside our window. What was I doing here? Who was Rafe, really? Can you just put a part of yourself on hold? And if you do, does it cease to be true? Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.
Bill Konigsberg
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What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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MaCleod, since you've flown the SeaBee a lot you'll understand when I say it was the only airplane I ever owned that you could put in a dive, loose a cylinder and stall out!
Ernest K. Gann
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I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.
Evan Dando
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When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
Eugene Ionesco
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We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
Stephen R. Donaldson
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Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.
Emmet Gowin
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Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.
Emily Raboteau
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I don't always have to understand the people I love.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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To understand is to decipher. To hear significance is to translate.
George Steiner
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I don't understand why people don't remember my name.
Paul Lynde
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Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?
David H. Hubel
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We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
Rene Descartes
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What they don’t understand—and the wide world certainly does not understand—is that these reckless acts do stem from a biological need to alter their inner state. In pain, they feel compelled to seek relief immediately.
Edward Hallowell
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It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.
Uzodinma Iweala
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We have an obligation to enforce the border, ... it's important for the people of this state to understand, your voices are being heard in Washington, D.C.
Janet Napolitano
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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
Paul Gauguin
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You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
Michael Gerber
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I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.
Brandon Flowers The Killers