Quotes About Understand

I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.

The whole journey of life is a journey of preparation... to see, to feel, to understand the beauty of what lies ahead, of the homeland towards which we walk.

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

One has to understand the dynamics of the species and habitat in question, and most armchair ethicists haven't the faintest clue.

Paradise Lost is a poem. The old, blind bastard's trying to sing to you. Listen, as the Isley Brothers say, to the music. You must learn to do that before you can expect to understand. Slowly. Slowly. A few licks at a time.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. ... Let them come to Berlin

As my father stretches to understand my journey I realize that maybe you can't change the world by your actions alone, but you can change yourself. And when you do, the world around you may change by attempting to understand you, as we all try to understand each other.

I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken...but I do recall when I started to understand that it might be okay. It was the moment I fell in love with the boy with the green eyes.

You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are complicated. I mean, what is it in those little molecules and stuff that make one cat behave differently than another, or that make a cat? And how do you define a cat? I have no idea.

God's wisdom, not God's justice, forms the basis of God's activity in the world. Faith trusts that God is wise and that therefore his purposes are good, even if they don't seem that way to any system we can understand. God does not need to be defended; he wants to be trusted.

The past is a foreign country, and we're only tourists. We can't expect to understand the locals, or why they do what they do.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

One thing groupies will never understand is that they all start blending together. There is nothing unique about them and yet they all think they are the right one for me. I know the right one for me and her name is Tina and no matter how our paths come together and divide us as the years pass. She is and will always be the one for me.

Muted pain, it turns out, is much worse than clear pain. Clear pain is quantifiable. One can face it, reckon with it, come away braver. There is no way to understand what you cannot feel. No reckoning to be had. It will haunt you forever, make you afraid. Still, they call her this laughable word: Survivor.

You didn't have to love people or to hate them-you had only to get on with them.

He was beginning to understand that some of the most irritating that his family did stemmed from the depth of their love. And suddenly it felt wonderful to be worried about and fussed over, to be reclaimed by their messy closeness.

Strifbjorn did understand, when he could sense the past uncomfortable tightness of jealousy in his throat.