Understand Quotes

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood.

My head can get to murder and rape for profit because I can understand greed as a human motive, but I cannot understand the voyeuristic desire to watch such a film. I can comprehend one and I cannot comprehend the other.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

Trying to understand women is a tall order period.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.