Quotes About Understanding

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

I don't think I even understand the full meaning of athletics.

I knew at once that Carolyne, my wife, was different to the other women I had known. She understood me for what I am and never asked for anything. We've been through terrible times, but she has always been there for me. Life would be meaningless without her.

Words take on many different meanings.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

The 'Mother of God' stuff comes from my dad who used to use that all the time. He would say, 'Mother of God' all the time. He used to just say 'Mother' and we know what he meant.

I never meant to antagonize anyone.

You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

I have grown up being a father. When my first son was born I was 17. I was a child bringing up a child. I was not capable of understanding what a dad was meant to be.

I feel some people are not meant to be together but that doesn't mean they are bad.

My love is not measured in reciprocity. That's not the way I learned love.

Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience.

I was not put on this earth to listen to meat!

People like me get to grow up and fail and learn. People who grow up like Meek should get that opportunity, too.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

If you're doing something that's period, you've got to live in it, and you've got to make it resonate with you.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.