Quotes About Understand

My audience is God, because who the hell else could understand me?

I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

I don't feel pleased with myself while recording this cruelty, even though it was only a cruelty to a doll. It's a vengeful side of my nature that I am sorry to say I have failed to subdue entirely. But in an account such as this, it is better to be scrupulous about your faults, as about all your other actions. Otherwise no one will understand why you made the decisions that you made.

So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.

It's a juvenile display, the whole act, and pathetic; but it's something I understand.

The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

I know, every time I get somewhere, it'll be strange. But if I understand correctly, I also have fans here and it reassures me.

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

Spending energy to understand the audience and carefully crafting a message that resonates with them means making a commitment of time and discipline to the process.

No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it.

Here in England there's a glass wall between you and the taste of reality. I don't want to see the last true passion tamed by railways, and men with Bibles telling everyone to cover their bodies." He spread his powerful, elegant hands. "Play your string quintets, by all means, Mr. Narraway, but don't silence the drums simply because you don't understand them. The men who play violins have steel and gunpowder, and the men who play drums don't.

as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.

She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow.