I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminality of… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was nearly 41 when I had my last child. I felt that was late, that I was pushing Mother Nature to… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
I have understood that there is a huge fan following of 'Bigg Boss,' it's a huge platform and everyone in the country… — Neha Bhasin Copy Share Image
Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face… — Jim Gray Copy Share Image
I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the… — Jermaine Jackson Copy Share Image
I did have to turn down things in the past, which I was upset about sometimes, but I understood I was part… — A. J. Pritchard Copy Share Image
In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING,… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain:… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Miracles are everywhere to be found when the priesthood is understood, its power is honored and used properly, and faith is exerted. — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
