What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators… they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular...

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

I did, although I didn’t read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able...

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.

What I’m trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there’s inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have...

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written...

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and...

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I’m a jazzer who doesn’t have a feeling for pop, so it’s hard to get...

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn’t make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear… then his message was easily...

And I’m the kind of manager that doesn’t believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

I think you need to understand games to write them. There’s a learning curve, just like there’s a learning curve in anything. It’s not precisely the same as film or television, but you’re using the...

My brother was diagnosed with autism at age 2. At the time, I was young, so I didn’t really understand what it all meant. The doctors thought there was a possibility my brother wouldn’t be...

I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease...

Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand.

I would come, many years later, to understand why ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ is considered ‘an important novel’, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked...

There are occasions when I’ve pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it’s absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand...

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

It’s not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn’t understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you...

Humanity doesn’t need to be understood, if you can practice it

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.

Study the bible thoroughly before a pseudo-holy criminal mislead you!

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

I don’t understand some people, using biblical terms to criticize me when this is just a game.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

We’re learning as we go. We’re a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

There’s a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don’t know why, you know? But they like it even if they can’t understand it because it has that style, that appeal.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We’re both Leos, we understand each other.

It’s very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it’s ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly...

‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was one of my father’s favorite records, which I obviously didn’t understand when I was young. To be honest, I don’t really have too many memories of hearing it, but...

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I’m the sort of person who will just look for the negative – Michael really can’t understand it, but that’s just the way I am....

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn’t help me to understand the world I lived in.