Quotes About Understanding

You good with Arabic?" Bam! Out of left field, and now Stone was smiling. There were many Arabic dialects, from Moroccan Arabic with Berber words which often did not even sound Arabic, to the aristocratic Arabic spoken by the Saudi royal family, which was different from the Arabic spoken in the streets.

I didn't know what to say that wouldn't sound self

I said, "Ben. Would you give your mother and me a moment alone, please?" Ben giggled. "You want me to amscray?" "Yes, Ben, I want you to amscray.

Pike rolled down his window and motioned them over. Pike spoke Spanish pretty well, along with French, gutter German, a little Vietnamese, a little Arabic, and enough Swahili to make himself understood to most Bantu speakers.

Buddy, feel what's true to you. If you want to talk about this stuff, or anything, twenty-four-seven, I'm yours. If not, then not, but I'm here.

Geography informs, rather than determines. Geography, therefore, is not synonymous with fatalism.

If rationalism and secularism have taken us so far that we can no longer imagine what Phidippides saw, then we are incapable of understanding—and consequently defending ourselves against—religious movements that reverse the Enlightenment and affect today's geopolitics.

Because of the creation of a global middle class in the intervening decades, everyone the world over looks and acts increasingly similar. In this sense at least, travel has lost its magic; or, rather, I should say the traveler must now work harder to understand the mystery of places given that travel relies on the differences between us.

The matter is very simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But . . . we pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

She came forward to meet him, and he saw the familiar fear in her eyes—a fear poignant now beyond enduring because he understood its cause. She blurred before his eyes, and he walked toward her blindly. When he came up to her, his eyes cleared, and he reached out across the years and touched her rain-wet cheek. She knew it was all right then, and the fear went away forever, and they walked home hand in hand in the rain.

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

People believed what made them comfortable. What fit with their preconceptions of how the world worked.

If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.

Permanecer en silencio es algo más que no hablar".

When the armor's gone from you, you'll feel the pain of others too.

A gift, to be a gift, has to be accepted. Otherwise it lies like a burden between people.

Though this universe I own, I possess not a thing, for I cannot know the unknown if to the known I cling.

La mayoría de las personas no entiende el perdón. Siempre se piden perdón unas a otras, cuando lo que cada una de ellas necesita es perdonarse a sí misma por haber creado una situación en la que es necesario el perdón.

Cuando amas a alguien con la razón, el amor no puede ser constante. Cuando amas a alguien con el corazón, el amor siempre está ahí, como lo está la comprensión.

Poseéis para controlar, pero si intentáis controlar a un ser humano, no podréis amarlo.

Cuando ya no precisamos a una persona es sólo entonces cuando podemos amarla de verdad.

Por que você sempre responde com outra pergunta? E por que você sempre busca nos outros as respostas às suas perguntas?

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.