We Understand Quotes

395 quotes by 336 authors

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more. — Naomi Watts
If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to… — Branford Marsalis
Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand. — Billy Corgan
Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe -- make policy -- to modify or eliminate it.… — Hyman Minsky
Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is. — George W. Bush
While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything -… — Al Sharpton
We hate the kindness which we understand. — Henry David Thoreau
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text… — Jonathan Culler
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to… — Carl Jung
We practically always excuse things when we understand them — Mikhail Lermontov
We almost always forgive those we understand. — Mikhail Lermontov
We think we understand each other, but we never really do. — Luigi Pirandello
We do not understand democracy in its bourgeois meaning--of babbling, lack of discipline, anarchy. We understand democracy as the active participation of the citizens in… — Nicolae Ceausescu
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. — Emile M. Cioran
We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.… — Nelson Mandela
As adult women, we're better able to protect ourselves emotionally. We understand we don't need to spend time with people who don't make us feel… — Deborra-Lee Furness
Self belief is just one of the reasons we're younger and looking better today. We're also better educated. We know more about the environment and… — Deborra-Lee Furness
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our… — John Ashcroft
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. — Socrates

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