Understand Quotes
12470 Understand quotes by 6478 unique authors
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them
— Mikhail Lermontov
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
— Ivan Turgenev
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I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My…
— Mitt Romney
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If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of…
— Mike Huckabee
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I do things differently, because I don't go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that's got…
— Princess Diana
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It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done…
— Princess Diana
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I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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Cricket? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!
— Raphael
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You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.
— Morrie Schwartz
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One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.
— James Baker
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am…
— Theodore Parker
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The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more…
— Alfred Bester
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It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not…
— Mikhail Tal
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Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to…
— Cornelia Funke
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It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks…
— Joseph Bruchac
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Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents are dealing with…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We think we understand each other, but we never really do.
— Luigi Pirandello
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In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.
— James T. Farrell
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In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a…
— Hari Kunzru
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
— Ann Patchett
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The thing that you have to understand about those of us in the Black Muslim movement was that all of us believed 100 percent in…
— Malcolm X
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