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Quotes About Understand

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.
~ Lucien Febvre
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people's lives even if they didn't understand why.
~ Neal Stephenson
you made a point of hanging out exclusively with people who had the wit to see and to understand that objective reality, you didn't have to waste a lot of time talking.
~ Neal Stephenson
Anyone who made it through the screening and the training required to become an Arkie"—which doesn't include you, Julia—"will understand exactly what we are trying to do from an orbital mechanics standpoint.
~ Neal Stephenson
The wall is home base. The wall won't move. If I stand at the wall, I won't be expected to move. This is what it means to be a wallflower. Now I understand.
~ Ned Vizzini
For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don't like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of them. <...> Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
me as though I might need another analogy, which I didn't
~ Nelson DeMille
There are people to whom one need not show off. It's a great comfort sometimes.
~ Ngaio Marsh
the sellers of these 'structured products' boasted that securitization was having the effect of allocating risk 'to those best able to bear it'. Only later did it turn out that risk was being allocated to those least able to understand it.
~ Niall Ferguson
You were spying on us? It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death. He wasn't, Ronnie assured him. I'm just saying how it looked. She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older.
~ Nicholas Sparks
when a wife wouldn't testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if most of them wouldn't admit it.
~ Nicholas Sparks
It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be. Does that ever happen to you? Well; I don't think we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you're a grown-up, you'll understand. Jonah: I don't want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Now I understand how Noah must have felt. Can you believe this storm? I've got puddles all over my kitchen.
~ Nicholas Sparks
But for a while, it was surprisingly easy to overlook our obvious differences. And we did.
~ Nicholas Sparks
When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.
~ Marion Cotillard
What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He's been a legend for decades and he doesn't know what's going on right now, and he doesn't need to.
~ Alexa Ray Joel
Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.
~ Isabelle Huppert
I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot more out of a collection of songs to be able to understand what the musician is doing.
~ Jimmy Page
In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
~ Karen DeCrow
It is crazy how people can't understand the concept of comedy and music. It's like they have to be mutually exclusive.
~ Lil Dicky
I've had so many coaches that have helped me along the way through my journey, who understand me and know me as a person.
~ Fran Kirby