Quotes About Understand

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

I'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experiences are probably natural phenomena we don't understand just yet.

We need to understand why there is a void of participation in public life from the Muslim community and why it is a growing issue, and we need to understand the impact of this on wider civil society.

A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.

It can be easy and tempting, especially during a presidential campaign, to listen only to opinions that mirror and fortify one's own. That's not ideal, because it eliminates learning and makes it impossible for people to understand what they dismiss as 'the other side.'

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.

Macri didn't understand anything. It wasn't a bad election, it was a terrible government.

I ask myself what is a dictator? I don't understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not frightening. I am not a bad person at all.

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

Even before 9/11, the Philippines was already fighting terrorism in southwestern Philippines. That's why when 9/11 happened, we could understand the pain.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

Pakistan and its associates find it difficult to understand that there are no 'good terrorists and bad terrorists.'

If you have never read about quantum mechanics before (perhaps even if you have), you will no doubt find it confusing, maybe incomprehensible. If you do, take heart! As the brilliant (and Nobel prize-winning) physicist Richard Feynman put it: It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see, my physics students don't understand it either. That's because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

The emptiness of life is, at times, deafening. I think the thought of my existence is a pain because I feel at some times that I do not understand it, and at other times, I don't think there is anything to understand.

It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay. And as I lay and tossed about, the voice in my ears seemed more distinct, and I began to understand the words he had muttered. They came to me slowly as if I had forgotten them, and at last I could make some sense out of the sounds. It was this: "Have you found the Yellow Sign?" "Have you found the Yellow Sign?" "Have you found the Yellow Sign?

The human mind isn't naturally programmed to comprehend spiritual experiences.

One can only rule what one knows.

I found my voice. 'I'm going to—' Riddle crossed his arms on his chest. His nostrils flared and he exclaimed defiantly, 'I don't care what you do. Understand that. Do whatever you wish, but it won't change anything.' '—be a grandfather.

Those who idealize the past tend not to understand it: restoration kills it with kindness.

isn't the men who declare war who have to wage it. Only those of us who live in the field truly understand the realities of power.

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?