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Quotes About Understand

Lanser said, There are no peaceful people, when will you learn it? There are no friendly people, can't you understand that?
~ John Steinbeck
And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the buyer man would get much more, but they didn't know how to do it. Merchandising was a secret to them.
~ John Steinbeck
Stories have haunted us and followed us from our beginning," Samuel said. "We carry them along with us like invisible tails—the story of original sin and the story of Cain and Abel. And I don't understand either of them. I don't understand them at all but I feel them.
~ John Steinbeck
For how can a man without property know the ache of ownership?
~ John Steinbeck
Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.
~ John Updike
In this regard, cultivating mindfulness is not unlike the process of eating. It would be absurd to propose that someone else eat for you. And when you go to a restaurant, you don't eat the menu, mistaking it for the meal, nor are you nourished by listening to the waiter describe the food. You have to actually eat the food for it to nourish you. In the same way, you have to actually practice mindfulness in order to reap its benefits and come to understand why it is so valuable.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
~ Young Jeezy
I'm the only one in - of my siblings, my mom and my family - that hasn't been affected by Lyme disease. It's been really hard for me because I'm the only one that doesn't really understand it.
~ Gigi Hadid
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child.
~ Groucho Marx
The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.
~ G. Willow Wilson
I am familiar with the phrase, 'needle in a haystack' and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to.
~ Unknown
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
~ Marlene Dietrich
I just wish I could understand my father.
~ Michael Jackson
I would like to understand my father.
~ Michael Jackson
They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.
~ Erykah Badu
I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.
~ Neil Peart
For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.
~ Matt Damon
You cannot run away from your problems. A problem is a problem until you get to the root of the problem.
~ Unknown
When life gets stressful, never forget the things you should remember, and remember the things you should forget. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
~ Unknown
You need to understand life enough and at the same time be ready to endure the consequences of your actions, because every action of life comes with a reward.
~ Unknown
Life is hard enough. Don't go around making others lives miserable just because you can, you don't know what they've been through or what is to come for them.
~ Unknown
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
~ Marie Curie
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
~ Sophia Loren