Quotes About Understanding

I thought you'd have known that, you being a TV writer.

But if she'd known him better, she might have been a little less curt with him. I saw the anger stirring in his eyes and it made me think of a crocodile rising from the mud.

could hear his voice. "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas…

We had managed to drift into that awful arena, so familiar to the long-term married couple, where what was left unspoken was actually more damaging than what was said. We weren't married, by the way. Andreas had proposed to me, doing the whole diamond-ring-down-on-one-knee thing, but we had both been too busy to follow through, and anyway, my Greek wasn't good enough yet to understand the service.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everyone's heart

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. (MLK, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1964) (Note: 50 years ago)

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

Feel provides an important channel of information.

I have a hard time understanding how cutting the program in our country that provides healthcare to working families by $800 billion can be classified as mercy.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off.

Increasing the diversity of what we teach is critical to providing students with a better understanding of who we are as a society and where we are going.

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.

My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

It's not easy trying to get into the psyche and behaviour patterns, which are far removed from one's own personality. Some intense characters linger long after it's over on screen.

There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.