Understand Quotes
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There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.
Sarah Dessen
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Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.
Audrey Hepburn
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People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.
Nikki Glaser
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People can be cruel. People hate what they don’t understand.” “But, Dad, they don’t want to understand.” “Maybe they don’t. But we have to find a way to discipline our hearts so that their cruelty doesn’t turn us into hurt animals.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
Rene Descartes
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If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.
Sibel Kekilli
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Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.
Joseph Mawle
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We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.
Alex Lawther
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I liked the monsters, I liked them because I couldn't understand how something so scary could also be so good. It got me thinking as a very early age, and I had a lot of rehearsal.
Eva Mendes
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So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.
Richard Rogers
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
Cesare Pavese
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[...] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Understand that the body is merely the foam of a wave, the shadow of a shadow.
Gautama Buddha
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
Soren Kierkegaard
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You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
Michael Gerber
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In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well.
Martin Luther
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The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.
John Ruskin
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If you don’t understand what other people want, you can’t help them get what they want and they can’t help you get what you want.
Neil Balme
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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
Eugene Ionesco
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This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The one thing I don't understand is war.
Muhammad Ali
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Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.
Mike Bouchard
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A lot of people say things to us. We're so young and, I guess, cute. We want people to watch our sport and understand it.
Jamie Johnson
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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.
Victor Hugo