Quotes About Understanding

Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

I understand German; I can read German.

Sometimes I don't use the words 'will' and 'want' in the right way. The German word 'will' is the English word 'want,' so that's a little bit of the problem.

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.

Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

Big romantic gestures are only as strong as the relationships they happen in.

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

I just do not understand all of these guys that get married and then want to go spend all of their time with their buddies.

I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.

I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.

I tell you what: when you are getting married to Miranda Lambert, you're going to make time for whatever she wants.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

I believe that every one of us has a gift. And I believe that mine is the ability to take the complex and make it simple.

I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.

I love buying gifts for people who I am close to as I know their likes and dislikes.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

When people come to my gigs, they feel accepted as they are and they feel part of this family.

It's difficult to explain a giraffe to a Bolivian who lives on the Altiplano. But when they see one, I think they'll like it.

I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.