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Quotes About Understand

I can't make your reality-situation palatable to you. But I can help you comprehend it.
~ Philip K. Dick
His disciples asked him what this parable might mean, and he said, 'The mysteries of the kingdom of God are revealed to you, for the rest there are only parables, so that they might see but not perceive, listen but not understand.'" (Luke 8:9/10)
~ Philip K. Dick
You're full of shit," Miss Stickyfoot said disdainfully. Cadbury said, "That proves I understand Zen. Do you see? Or perhaps the fact is that you don't actually understand Zen yourself.
~ Philip K. Dick
It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.
~ Philip Pullman
Lyndon cannot, he insists, for the life of him understand why new generations such as your own see everything of importance in terms of love, David. As if it explained feelings lasting years, that word.
~ David Foster Wallace
Peter didn't want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.
~ David James Duncan
He desires for us to understand His plans.
~ David Jeremiah
You ask me some questions And I give you some answers But nothing that would make you understand.
~ David Levithan
The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It's the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.
~ David Levithan
I am trying to make an emotional point. I don't expect you to understand me on that level - you are but a romantic sapling. I am a sequoia, so you'd be well advised to listen to what I have to say.
~ David Levithan
This is how we understand. We wore your flaws. We wore your fears. We made your mistakes.
~ David Levithan
I don't think meaning is something that can be explained. You have to understand it on your own. It's like when you're starting to read...it's that leap, that understanding, that leads to meaning.
~ David Levithan
You won't cry, and that makes me want to.
~ David Levithan
There are some truths that no one likes to hear, but it is precisely these that we need to pursue if we are to understand where war lives in human nature.
~ David Livingstone Smith
You can understand conflict, but you don'thave to live in it.
~ David Lynch
In the end, what choice does one have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get one with the business of ones life. That's the hope, anyway.
~ David Rakoff
The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you're a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.
~ David Sedaris
If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?
~ David Sedaris
These tabloids only want to exploit. They don't understand this woman and her life. They don't understand you, let alone someone like me. If you want my opinion, they're nothing but savages and we'd be better off without them.
~ David Sedaris
Those who regard worldly affairs as a hindrance to buddha dharma think only that there is no buddha dharma in the secular world; they do not understand that there is no secular world in buddha dharma.
~ Zen Master Dogen
Listen twice, but only think once. "I
~ Zoya
No one can understand my accent!
~ Jean-Georges Vongerichten
I think all my favorite directors have acted. They understand how an actor thinks.
~ Michael Arden
I can't get people to understand how important the Alzheimer's fight is to me.
~ Jim Nantz