Quotes About Understanding

I must confess that we British Liaison Officers were slow to understand their point of view; as a nation we have always tended to assume that those who do not whole-heartedly support us in our wars have some sinister motive for not wishing to see the world a better place. This attitude made us particularly unsympathetic towards the Balli Kombëtar, although the latter was a thoroughly patriotic organization. The Balli

The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

Love gives you eyes.

“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one anotherís speech.”

So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.

And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?

Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”

Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were distraught.

So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his masterís house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”

“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Donít interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.