Quotes with understand

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  • Andrew Vachss I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
    (2004)
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Joan Didion I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Atom Egoyan I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Angelina Grimké I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I have taken great care not to deride, bewail, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.
    Tractatus Politicus Ch. 1
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Carl Sandburg I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Agnes Smedley I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Robert McCloskey I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant
    Robert McCloskey
    American writer (1914 - 2003)
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  • Lord George Byron I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be performed.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Anthony Hope I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Buddha I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Jean Rostand I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Anish Kapoor I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Adam Jones I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bruce Feirstein 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 same muscles.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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