When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.
Anyone who studies the contemporary phenomenon of global warming, or who fears the insidious impact that the smartphone is having on our lives, or who remembers that there are enough nuclear warheads on enough intercontinental ballistic missiles to destroy human civilization with some ease, understands that modern technology threatens, indeed is likely, to overwhelm us.
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
I don't think anyone really understands why a show works or why it doesn't.
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country. . . he knows that. . . the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. . . . This guy clearly understands he's getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder -- but something lesser.
The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.
He who understands the wise is wise already.
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.
The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.
Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
He who understands the limits of life knows that it is easy to obtain that which removes the pain of want and makes the whole of life complete and perfect. Thus he has no longer any need of things which involve struggle.
No one understands the way I feel about things I don't understand.
No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.