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Quotes About Understand

We can't have Americans being murdered in this city, not with the state of tourism this year. Do you understand that?
~ Donna Leon
They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
~ Donna Tartt
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
~ Donna Tartt
You sound like my dad." "Well—let's put it another way. Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?" "Now you really sound like my dad." "Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?
~ Donna Tartt
Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?" "Now you really sound like my dad." "Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?
~ Donna Tartt
El analista mira lo que el paciente desea".
~ Unknown
to listen for real.
~ Unknown
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!
~ Unknown
The devil and temptations also afford us occasion to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without these we should never understand them, however diligently we read and listened to them.
~ Unknown
A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.
~ Unknown
Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore.
~ John Fowles
We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of usability - however innocent and harmless the use. For it is the general uselessness of so much of nature that lies at the root of our ancient hostility and indifference to it.
~ John Fowles
The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.
~ John Gray
You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on.
~ John Grisham
Rape was an outrage even God couldn't understand.
~ John Irving
But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!
~ John Jakes
But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!
~ John Jakes
Britons are 16 times more likely to understand the rules of Quidditch than the rules of croquet.
~ John Lloyd
That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well.
~ Lowell Milken
There's nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they're there because they understand.
~ Unknown
We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.
~ Ernest Moniz
You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
The only way to experience an experience is to experience it
~ Bill Moggridge
The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.
~ Robin Roberts