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Quotes About Understanding

You hope you're saying the right things - but also, as a kid becomes a teenager, you feel like there's a ticking clock for you to tell them everything they need to know.
~ Reese Witherspoon
To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul - hope you like what you see.
~ Aldo Leopold
When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore
~ J. K. Rowling
I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
~ Wayne Coyne
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.
~ Isadora Duncan
Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding.
~ John Mellencamp
How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
~ Andre Gide
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
~ Dan Simmons
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.
~ Ross Parmenter
I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.
~ Max Tundra
I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
~ Cary Elwes
You narrow hope when you define it.
~ Barbara Hambly
We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.
~ Carl Mydans
Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
~ William Kraft
One of the things that EBONY [magazine] has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.
~ Ed Gordon
The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.
~ Howard Zinn
How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
~ Subhash Kak
What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?
~ Simone Weil
Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
~ Oscar Pistorius
A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.
~ Susan Sontag
My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.
~ Dalai Lama