Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back. — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office. — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Creativity occurs as an act of encounter, and is to be understood with this encounter at the center. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how… — Michael Dumontier Copy Share Image
We thought it was our duty to go and warn people of the consequences of their sins, and I understood that to… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal. — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Christianity, righty understood, is utterly unlike religion that man invents. It is so completely contrary to the way man does things that… — Richard Halverson Copy Share Image
Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the… — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause at the very least was designed to guarantee freedom of conscience by prohibiting any degree of compulsion in… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. — Betty Eadie Copy Share Image
People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you. — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
