Quotes About Understanding

God sure hadn't done His menfolk any favors when He's made women such a puzzlement.

I've got no bone to pick with science, but first off I'm a man of faith. If you're using science to put limits on what God can accomplish with a person, that's where we part ways.

I'm praying about it. He knows what I want.

Why would your brother listen to me?" "Because he knows I love you.

You know, I hope you don't judge

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

There's always a reason for God's creation. What was he trying to tell us? What are we to learn from all this?

Everyone has a story to tell. You just have to listen.

You want to hear what kind of woman I'd accept as a wife? Tall enough to fit under my chin, sunny hair, warm disposition, backbone to argue her side of the matter, grace to give in when she sees it's important to me. Someone who understands what I do and respects me for it. You find me a woman like that, and I may have to rethink my decision not to wed.

Adelaide nodded. "I don't suspect you need my intervention any longer.

It is the purification of the intellect which prepares for contemplation.

It has been said that if a little learning withdraws a person from religion, great learning brings him back to it.956

Sorry?" said Dalziel turning. "What's that you said?" He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear. If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained.

Reginald Hill

Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.

I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

An idea that is not expressed, that is not or cannot be communicated, is no idea at all.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

The intelligent man, who exploits available resources for knowledge of the needs and wants of his fellows, will be more inclined to adjust his conduct to their needs than those who are less intelligent.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

Cause when I looked into your eyes, and you dared to stare right back, you should of said, Nice to meet you, I'm your other half

Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.