I’m no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don’t particularly want them to understand me.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can’t see from the ground – you really understand the impact of man,...

You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You...

If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers

May be wiser to everything to see and understand what it left behind.

What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this...

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.

I say the same thing that I’ve said for decades now, which is: don’t go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn’t have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn’t understand, he wants to know if she’s tired.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I,...

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn’t understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against...

Darling,You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am writing you this letter, or what this letter is supposed to be about,...

Some people just don’t seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain’t true, folks.

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back – to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

Tidak selamanya kata kata indah itu benar, dan kata kata menyakitkan itu salah, jadi pahami dan mengertilah.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That’s the main thing that excites me. Our sense of...

We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.

I’m just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an ‘only’ in that regard.

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

I’d take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what’s going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent...

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can’t. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve...

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

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.

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it… Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the...

If you really have your own identity you’ll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you’ll also understand the next step you want to take.

Where I am right now I’m pretty good at. You know, I understand that there’s a problem. I’m addressing it. I’m doing the work that I have to do.

A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better...

A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.

On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn’t understand that you don’t get another take ever. I’m finally learning on...

What makes you believe, that you are the only person with so much problems and bad luck? If you wear everyone’s shoes, you will certainly understand that the whole world is drowning in crisis and...

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

God’s ways are not our ways. They are beyond our understanding.

I enjoy spending time with my family. And when my family’s not around, when I’m on the road, a lot of sleep. I get my rest. I understand how important my job is and how...

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue...

There’s only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact,...

I want kids to understand that strength doesn’t come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

MISS YOU WILL MISS ME IF YOU, MISS UNDERSTAND ME

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are...

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.