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Quotes About Understand

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. But there are other anguishes, many others. They unfold as they will, and to dwell within them is to understand nothing.
~ Steven Erikson
Mages by nature never commanded loyalty. Fear, yes, and the respect born of fear, but the one thing a mage found difficult to understand or cope with was loyalty. And yet there had been one mage, long ago, who had commanded loyalty – and that was the Emperor.
~ Steven Erikson
Kill, thought Ditch, nodding, kill, yes, I understand. I do. Kill, for her. Kill. And he found that the word itself, yes, the word itself, knew how to smile.
~ Steven Erikson
Barring the necessary brains, of course," Kruppe said, "which is my true skill—though one such as Coll would never understand such abilities, alien as they are to him.
~ Steven Erikson
Beware the women who demand money after playing with your penis. They understand nothing of privilege.
~ Steven Erikson
Then the Jaghut said, 'Hanako, I am named Raest.' 'Then welcome, Raest, to our fire.' 'Voice a single jibe, Hanako, and I might have to chop off your head. Just so you understand how this night will play.
~ Steven Erikson
Ah, Fist, it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.
~ Steven Erikson
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
I don't really doubt – I just want to.
~ Steven L. Peck
Meanwhile, Page pushed for a test that prospective investors would be required to pass: answer three questions about Google, just to make sure that you understand the company and aren't just making a trendy bid. It was the closest he could come to demanding potential investors' SAT scores. The SEC nixed the idea.
~ Steven Levy
W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment.
~ Steven Mithen
Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.' The Doctor: 'Amy Pond, there's something you better understand about me, 'cause it's important and one day your life may depend on it. [He Smiles] I am definitely a madman with a box.
~ Steven Moffat
Learn the rules before you break them.
~ Steven Taylor Goldsberry
She'd wanted to put him at ease, whilst also revelling in his discomfort. She couldn't understand her feelings.
~ Storm Constantine
The truth is there. Work it out.
~ Storm Constantine
Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words.
~ Sue Rock
Don't you understand about your dirty condition?
~ Sujata Massey
I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you to understand if you can and for you to feel, regardless.
~ Sun Ra
To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.
~ Sun Tzu
I had seen the ethos of rugby, and I was very much an admirer. For us, it's a beautiful sport, what I guess what Pele called soccer in Brazil. It's so simple; it's easy to understand. You can play five on five or 15 on 15.
~ John Layfield
It's clear to me that millions of young people understand and value my father's legacy of social change through nonviolence.
~ Martin Luther King III
If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.
~ Gillian Cross
Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.
~ Rana el Kaliouby
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
~ Philipp Meyer