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Quotes About Understand

Our duty is to understand youth, but more, to help them understand themselves that they may release their varied abilities... We must help them to discover a life work, not work for life.
~ Henrietta Mears
Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
~ Mariska Hargitay
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
~ Oscar Wilde
One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.
~ F. E. Marsh
Those things in life that matter will give you pain as you learn to understand life.
~ Keorapetse Kgositsile
In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
~ Norm MacDonald
love whatever you read. Enrich your life with books, of any type. If you aren't enjoying a book, try another – life is far too short.* I'm still trying to read every book in the world. You're a reader. You understand.
~ Jenny Colgan
What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
The best way to understand something is to try to change it.
~ Jerome Bruner
when we think the curse for violating God's Law is too severe, it's because we don't understand God or the nature of sin. God
~ Jerry Bridges
My mind is a reasonable sort of fellow. But my heart . . .my heart has never been able to understand loss.
~ Jerry Ellis
As I sat in the office of the cure, he began to speak and explain to me what it was. I was there, and I had no choice but to continue, it seemed there was nothing but that, nothing else – and yet, it was being explained to me, almost without my permission, as a matter of course, this thing I did not understand: the cure for suicide.
~ Jesse Ball
If we have no place to go where we can escape that reaction to our bodies, where is it that we're not forced? The idea that these crimes are escapable is the blind optimism of men who don't understand what it means to live in a body that attracts a particular kind of attention with magnetic force.
~ Jessica Valenti
If we want to Fascism we must understand it. Wishful thinking will not help us. And reciting optimistic formulae will prove to be as inadequate and useless as the ritual of an Indian rain dance.
~ Erich Fromm
A bitch. No prostitute. A bitch. If you were a Russian you would understand.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The official burdens on your shoulders are indeed heavy. I write to tell you how deeply I sympathize with you in having to bear this new burden of personal loss and sorrow.
~ Erik Larson
Please understand and love me.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You are not supposed to like things. Only to understand
~ Ernest Hemingway
But you were living in a milieu of criminals and perverts." I did not want to argue that, although I thought that I had lived in a world as it was and there were all kinds of people in it and I tried to understand them, although some of them I could not like and some I still hated.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Shakespeare could do anything with words. You are not more intelligent than he--so don't try to fix his writing. Try to understand it. If the language is clumsy or contradictory--consider why? Every word was deliberately chosen. Trust me.
~ Ethan Hawke
Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver.
~ Eugene Ionesco
What is important is the thinking you force yourself to go through to understand the relationship between the various aspects of your production process.
~ Andrew S. Grove
People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.
~ Andrew Smith
Geralt finished his mug of herb tea, grimacing dreadfully. He valued and liked the settled elves for their intelligence, calm reserve and sense of humour, but he couldn't understand or share their taste in food or drink.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski