Quotes about Can't Understand

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand. Votes: 4

People fear what they can't understand and harm what they fear. Votes: 4

Niggas hate what they can't understand, fear what they can't conquer Votes: 4

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. Votes: 4

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been. Votes: 4

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated. Votes: 4

Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes. Votes: 4

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. Votes: 4

I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert. Votes: 4

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why. Votes: 4

I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business. Votes: 4

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. Votes: 4

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand. Votes: 4

That's what the 'Doctor' is about, essentially - having that energy that you just can't understand. Votes: 4

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution. Votes: 4

Don't criticize what you can't understand. Votes: 3

You can't live principals you can't understand. Votes: 3

Never invest in a business you can't understand Votes: 3

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken. Votes: 3

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it. Votes: 3

If we can't program it, we can't understand it. Votes: 3

If I can't understand something, then it's probably nonsense. Votes: 3

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. Votes: 3

What is really important you can't understand with your mind. Votes: 3

Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you. Votes: 3

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Votes: 3

Look, you're really cute, but I can't understand what you're saying Votes: 3

I can't understand why people in Scotland rave about Darren Fletcher. Votes: 3

Haters are confused admirers who can't understand why everybody else likes you Votes: 3

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand. Votes: 3

We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural. Votes: 3

Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it. Votes: 3

I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. Votes: 3

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist? Votes: 3

It's too late. I've seen things...I've lost things you can't understand. Votes: 3

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it. Votes: 3

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying. Votes: 3

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it. Votes: 3

Don't criticize what you can't understand, son. You never walked in that's man shoes. Votes: 3

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. Votes: 3

The next level, by definition, is something you can't see and you can't understand... Votes: 3

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it. Votes: 3

I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain. Votes: 3

I still can't understand why anyone cares about what I do or what I say. Votes: 3

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost. Votes: 3

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Votes: 3

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. (...) What you can't understand, you destroy. Votes: 3

If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. Votes: 3

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present. Votes: 3

I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine. Votes: 3

I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it. Votes: 3

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it. Votes: 3

[Americans] can't understand that the water in our toilet is cleaner than 880 million have access to. Votes: 3

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either. Votes: 3

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. Votes: 3

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance. Votes: 3

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar. Votes: 3

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning. Votes: 3

Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it. Votes: 3

I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing Votes: 3

I don't care if people boo me or talk trash to me. I can't understand what they're saying anyways. Votes: 3

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it. Votes: 3

Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man. Votes: 3

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation. Votes: 3

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard? Votes: 3

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. Votes: 3

If they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it. Votes: 3

People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well. Votes: 3

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. Votes: 3

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world. Votes: 3

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest. Votes: 3

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions. Votes: 3

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Votes: 3

What I can't understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government. Votes: 3

The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel. Votes: 3

I think MTV should consider using subtitles. Half the time, even I can't understand what the fu*k I'm talking about. Votes: 3

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music. Votes: 3

I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.' Votes: 3

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. Votes: 3

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it. Votes: 3

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. Votes: 3

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can't understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel. Votes: 3

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself. Votes: 3

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. Votes: 3

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.) Votes: 3

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism Votes: 3

If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics. Votes: 3

When there's something you can't understand no matter how much you think about it, you can't let yourself brood over it forever. ~Allen Walker Votes: 3

I actually like how doctors talk. I like the sound of science. I like how words you don't understand explain things you can't understand. Votes: 3

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. Votes: 3

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. Votes: 3

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him. Votes: 3

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!' Votes: 3

I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person. Votes: 3

If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important. Votes: 3

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us. Votes: 3

If Putin wants to knock the hell out of ISIS, I'm all for it 100 percent and I can't understand how anybody would be against that. Votes: 3

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.' Votes: 3

I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it? Votes: 3

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan. Votes: 3

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke. Votes: 3

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist. Votes: 3

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. Votes: 3

I can see that now. I can see everything once it's already happened "” I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. Votes: 3

Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris) Votes: 3

If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions. Votes: 3

[My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a world we can't understand. Votes: 3

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure. Votes: 3

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to. Votes: 3

I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching. Votes: 3

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins? Votes: 3

A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well. Votes: 3

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker. Votes: 3

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me. Votes: 3

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on. Votes: 3

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me. Votes: 3

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on. Votes: 3

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!" Votes: 3

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it. Votes: 3

I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss. Votes: 3

This mix of love and hate, this blend of trust and hurt I have for him is so confusing even I can't understand it.He leaves, and I break. Votes: 3

To me, our music is like Jamaican stuff - if they can't hear it, they're not supposed to hear it. It's not for them if they can't understand it. Votes: 3

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health. Votes: 3

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field. Votes: 3

I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people Votes: 3

I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people. Votes: 3

Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president. Votes: 3

We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies. Votes: 3

I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me. And then, I just totally can't understand that. I actually can't. I get really hurt if someone doesn't like me. It's weird. Votes: 3

Someday it will all make sense. You are alright. Everything is alright. If you can't understand God's plan and you can't trace His hands, you can always trust His genuine heart. Votes: 3

Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand. Votes: 3

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something. Votes: 3

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney. Votes: 3

You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood.... Votes: 3

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Votes: 3

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness. Votes: 3

Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying." Votes: 3

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody. Votes: 3

I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool... Yes, it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what they can't understand. Votes: 3

We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and we can't understand the problems without knowing how we got here. Votes: 3

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk? Votes: 3

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive. Votes: 3

No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats. Votes: 3

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. Votes: 3

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse. Votes: 3

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about. Votes: 3

I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I'm just an arrogant little thing. It's hard for me to admit that I can't understand something, let alone not be in charge of it. Votes: 3

What I can't understand is why you invoke improbability and yet you will not admit that you're shooting yourself in the foot by postulating something just as improbable, magicking into existence the word God. Votes: 3

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right. Votes: 3

You can't understand the Electoral College unless you know what federalism is, and federalism is one of these terms that, in many cases, means the exact opposite of the word as it's currently applied. Votes: 3

You can't understand the Electoral College unless you know what federalism is, and federalism is one of these terms that, in many cases, means the exact opposite of the word as it's currently applied. Votes: 3

I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis. Votes: 3

I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'. Votes: 3

I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude. Votes: 3

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity. Votes: 3

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime. Votes: 3

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive. Votes: 3

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world? Votes: 3

Hillary Clinton ripped FBI Director Louis Freeh on Wednesday. She said she can't understand how FBI documents could vanish and then mysteriously reappear. She has to say that or she'd be thrown out of the Magician's Society. Votes: 3

There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks. Votes: 3

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it. Votes: 3

If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can't understand, will certainly think of you a stupid. Votes: 3

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around. Votes: 3

I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling. Votes: 3

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer. Votes: 3

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview Votes: 3

When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good. Votes: 3

Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I think fundamentally it is the substitutionary understanding that God - Jesus took our payment and you can't understand. Votes: 3

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it. Votes: 3

It's freaking football. There are going to be big hits. I don't understand how they can do this after one weekend of hitting. And I can't understand how they can suspend us for it. I think it's a bunch of bull. Votes: 3

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people. Votes: 3

I've always had a passion for tearing the bandages from other people's eyes. I've always insisted that those round me should see things as they are. I suppose it is that I need companionship in despair. I can't understand not despairing." Votes: 3

One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly. Votes: 3

My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him. Votes: 3

When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back. Votes: 3

I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is? Votes: 3

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it. Votes: 3

I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you think all bands should do, but they don't, and I can't understand why most bands don't want to do it. Votes: 3

If you tell me I can't understand you because of my color or you can't understand me because of your sexual orientation or she can't understand us because of her faith, well, if you can't have empathy how will you ever have solidarity? Votes: 3

A lot of time we don't get into politics because we don't believe anything you're saying and we can't understand what you're saying because we ask you question and you tap dance around the issue so much that we forget what we asked. Votes: 3

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on. Votes: 3

It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible. Votes: 3

How can [actors] learn their lines and be honest in front of 30 people and all the lights? It makes me cry sometimes. I can't understand how they can be joking with me 30 seconds before, and 40 seconds later they're giving me all this incredible feeling. Votes: 3

What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God? Votes: 3

We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali. Votes: 3

"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously. Votes: 3

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has. Votes: 3

I am down mentally. I can't understand how it happened and who is to blame? I don't know why the ground was rolled before the final which may have resulted in losing key players like Hemanta and Zahid due to the hardness of the pitch. Votes: 3

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true. Votes: 3

I learn a lot with actors that I don't think are good. Every experience shapes you. I've had experiences with actresses - and I say actresses because there's just a woman thing - that have achieved what she's achieved, by means that I can't understand. Votes: 3

New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say. Votes: 3

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me. Votes: 3

My mother's dying and may not live through the week. So, yes, I'd rather die trying to save her than live with the guilt of wondering if I could have. If you can't understand caring that much for someone you love then you're one coldhearted bastard. (Abbie) Votes: 3

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true. Votes: 3

I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without. Votes: 3

Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win. Votes: 3

Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything to the beloved, to the alter ego, before they have learned what the real Other can and can't understand, can and can't accept. Votes: 3

It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water? Votes: 3

Come mothers and fathers. Throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is Rapidly again. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand for the times they are a-changin'. Votes: 3

When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands. Votes: 3

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it. Votes: 3

I don't get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can't understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end of the field--court--to the other throwing an orange ball through a hoop in the air. I guess it's better than golf, but so is watching paint dry. Votes: 3

We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it? Votes: 3

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. Votes: 3

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. Votes: 2

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand. Votes: 2

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Votes: 2

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me. Votes: 2

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't. Votes: 2

Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at. Votes: 2

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. Votes: 2

I can't understand why more people aren't bisexual. It would double your chances for a date on Saturday night. Votes: 2

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes. Votes: 2

When you understand someone... truly understand someone... you can't help but love them. Therefore... anyone in your life... ANYONE... who you feel less than love for... you have misunderstood. Votes: 1

What I can't create I don't understand Votes: 0

You can't change what you don't understand. Votes: 0

You can't recover from what you do not understand. Votes: 0

We can become slaves to things we don't understand Votes: 0

What we don't understand we can make mean anything. Votes: 0

What you don't understand, you can make mean anything. Votes: 0

Anything that I don't understand or can't do is stupid. Votes: 0

I don't understand why or how we can bully each other. Votes: 0

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself Votes: 0

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. Votes: 0

Suggesting evil is human doesn’t mean we can always understand it. Votes: 0

You can't disassemble a bomb unless you understand how it was built. Votes: 0

I don't understand how someone can MAKE love without BEING in love. Votes: 0

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place. Votes: 0

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not. Votes: 0

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music. Votes: 0

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people. Votes: 0

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without. Votes: 0

When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do? Votes: 0

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be. Votes: 0

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much. Votes: 0

We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand. Votes: 0

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin? Votes: 0

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people. Votes: 0

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand. Votes: 0

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it. Votes: 0

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems. Votes: 0

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this Votes: 0

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows. Votes: 0

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Votes: 0

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time. Votes: 0

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico. Votes: 0

How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can't even understand one another? Votes: 0

You can't expect someone to understand your journey, when they've hardly lived one of their own. Votes: 0

My friends are my second family. Sometimes friends can understand my problem but my family can't. Votes: 0

When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind. Votes: 0

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat I just can't do it. Votes: 0

I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat... I just can't do it. Votes: 0

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough. Votes: 0

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry. Votes: 0

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand. Votes: 0

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken. Votes: 0

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know. Votes: 0

They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense. Votes: 0

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level. Votes: 0

I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really. Votes: 0

I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday. Votes: 0

Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify. Votes: 0

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it. Votes: 0

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled. Votes: 0

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't. Votes: 0

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. Votes: 0

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. Votes: 0

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty. Votes: 0

What women need to understand is that you cannot save a child if you can't save yourself. Votes: 0

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it. Votes: 0

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it. Votes: 0

The biggest thing is getting our guys to understand, you can't let one mistake compound into another mistake Votes: 0

Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it. Votes: 0

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. Votes: 0

You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect. Votes: 0

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments. Votes: 0

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand. Votes: 0

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. Votes: 0

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. Votes: 0

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that. Votes: 0

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. Votes: 0

I'd rather see a woman elected...They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home. Votes: 0

Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep. Votes: 0

I don't understand how women can manage to get back in shape with a new baby and a job. Votes: 0

I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it. Votes: 0

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy. Votes: 0

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five. Votes: 0

I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense. Votes: 0

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words. Votes: 0

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history. Votes: 0

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves. Votes: 0

I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do? Votes: 0

I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting. Votes: 0

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it. Votes: 0

It's really difficult for fanatic churchgoers to understand God can't help me. I'm the only one who can help me. Votes: 0

If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right? Votes: 0

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it... Votes: 0

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap. Votes: 0

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it. Votes: 0

We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage. Votes: 0

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand. Votes: 0

You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand? Votes: 0

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. Votes: 0

Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark. Votes: 0

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me? Votes: 0

No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted. Votes: 0

I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can be. Votes: 0

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone. Votes: 0

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. Votes: 0

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence. Votes: 0

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt. Votes: 0

I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under. Votes: 0

It's as if our girls don't understand that they can be recognized for other things--their goals, their brains. Not just their bodies. Votes: 0

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something. Votes: 0

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. Votes: 0

You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal. Votes: 0

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it. Votes: 0

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight. Votes: 0

Be intentional about your life and what you want to accomplish, but understand there's no choice you make that you can't change. Votes: 0

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand. Votes: 0

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. Votes: 0

Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting Votes: 0

There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything. Votes: 0

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you. Votes: 0

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it. Votes: 0

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted. Votes: 0

If the fans think I'm a savior, that's fine. But they have to understand I'm one of 25 guys. I can't do it all. Votes: 0

teaching the students I did before the accident helped me understand that a disability isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can be handled Votes: 0

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand. Votes: 0

It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off. Votes: 0

[O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit Votes: 0

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her. Votes: 0

I don't even think people really understand how you can get pregnant or when you get pregnant. I still have questions about that. Votes: 0

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it. Votes: 0

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it. Votes: 0

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another? Votes: 0

Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing.Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious. Votes: 0

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy. Votes: 0

I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done. Votes: 0

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on. Votes: 0

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past. Votes: 0

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that. Votes: 0

Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you. Votes: 0

The 8 key words that will move practically anyone to your side of the issue: 'If you can't do it, I'll definitely understand.' Votes: 0

Speak up, speak often and don't worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them. Votes: 0

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it. Votes: 0

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children. Votes: 0

The fact is that when you talk about Mujib [Rahiman], everything seems so incredible. I don't understand how the world can take him seriously. Votes: 0

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it. Votes: 0

I can’t understand it when people say they don’t like a particular color. . . . How on earth can you not like a color? Votes: 0

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can Votes: 0

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them. Votes: 0

You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check. Votes: 0

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off. Votes: 0

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all. Votes: 0

Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. Votes: 0

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them. Votes: 0

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured. Votes: 0

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire. Votes: 0

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable. Votes: 0

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets. Votes: 0

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it. Votes: 0

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science. Votes: 0

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on. Votes: 0

Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated. Votes: 0

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself. Votes: 0

If we can't come together, and have conversations and understand our biases and understand that hate, none of us are really the good guys here. Votes: 0

My name is very specific to my family. I'm very proud of being Nigerian. I understand that most people can't pronounce it, but that's OK. Votes: 0

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand. Votes: 0

Be comfortable; be you. What's most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you can't go wrong! Votes: 0

I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather. Votes: 0

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Votes: 0

People buy-into what they can understand quickly. If it takes you a long time to make your point, most people think you don't have one! Votes: 0

I didn't understand 3-D in the fifties and I can't say I get it now either. I just don't see what the big deal is. Votes: 0

We can't really understand just how wonderful Heaven will be unless we first know how wonderful each of us will be when we get there. Votes: 0

You can't just be in one thing and be comfortable in that one thing. You have to understand multiple things and how they all connect. Votes: 0

God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in the world how can you understand God? Votes: 0

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it. Votes: 0

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket. Votes: 0

I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give. Votes: 0

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say. Votes: 0

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that. Votes: 0

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity. Votes: 0

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 know. Votes: 0

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. Votes: 0

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself. Votes: 0

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live. Votes: 0

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that. Votes: 0

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be. Votes: 0

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself Votes: 0

I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God. Votes: 0

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can. Votes: 0

I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can. Votes: 0

I understand about the relative strengths of people, and I don't think people have to be anything. They can be nothin' if they want to be. Votes: 0

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself. Votes: 0

You can say what you mean and mean what you say, and people still won't understand. But be intentional for it is always greater than your word. Votes: 0

There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us. Votes: 0

Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything. Votes: 0

If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand it. Votes: 0

One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean. Votes: 0

Herman Cain has moved ahead of Mitt Romney. Can you believe that? Political analysts say this is because Americans don't understand Mormonism but they do understand pizza. Votes: 0

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness. Votes: 0

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world. Votes: 0

I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode. Votes: 0

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand. Votes: 0

There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete. Votes: 0

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that. Votes: 0

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against. Votes: 0

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop. Votes: 0

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much. Votes: 0

Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress. Votes: 0

A lot of women have come to understand that you can't just show up and say I'm unhappy, you have to then go out and do something. Votes: 0

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. Votes: 0

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view. Votes: 0

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights. Votes: 0

We can't fight darkness with darkness. We have to find compassion, and embrace the darkness inside of us in order to understand it and, ultimately, to transcend it. Votes: 0

It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction. Votes: 0

It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand. Votes: 0

The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought. Votes: 0

Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it. Votes: 0

I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view Votes: 0

You cannot escape from your past! But you can understand it! And once you understand it, you don't have to escape from it any longer! Understanding liberates you! Votes: 0

And she doesn't understand why he doesn't want to put out his medal like a trophy. And he can't tell her that he liberated Europe with a spade. Votes: 0

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history? Votes: 0

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment. Votes: 0

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. Votes: 0

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly. Votes: 0

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue. Votes: 0

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center. Votes: 0

I'm friends with [exes] and they hear the songs. I can honestly say I don't have any exes I hate. They're artists in some fashion so they understand. Votes: 0

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system? Votes: 0

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes. Votes: 0

I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't. Votes: 0

That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for. Votes: 0

Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq. Votes: 0

I understand people have to go to work and earn money and bring up kids, but I always thought, "Why can't I just do what I want to do?" Votes: 0

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be. Votes: 0

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. Votes: 0

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. Votes: 0

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it. Votes: 0

I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time. Votes: 0

My mother walks forward. She's crying, but there's a smile on her face. For God's sake, is it any wonder I can't ever understand what you people are feeling? Votes: 0

I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism. Votes: 0

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well. Votes: 0

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that? Votes: 0

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. Votes: 0

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act. Votes: 0

I try to not overthink anything. I don't understand why nipples are nudity. Who cares? Men can show their nipples but if we have breasts we can't show them? Votes: 0

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks. Votes: 0

…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all. Votes: 0

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. Votes: 0

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder Votes: -1