If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a… — Kerry King Copy Share Image
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You don't have any problems - only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems. because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The words are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard. They are, however, much more clearly understood… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only… — Mike Bouchard Copy Share Image
I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a… — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the… — Andrew Hawkins Copy Share Image
I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
I just never really understood the reason I understood movies so well, and I didn't realize that me being such a people-watcher… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer… — Rubem Alves Copy Share Image
Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the… — Tom Skerritt Copy Share Image
I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Some people think to be strong is to never feel pain. However the strongest people are the ones that have felt pain,… — Charlotte Dawson Copy Share Image
Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
You know what I'd really, really like? What I'd pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
TIVO was a big shift in how people watched TV, but everyone understood the concept of TV. No one really understands the… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in… — Vieux Farka Toure Copy Share Image