Understand Quotes

The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.

I understand people’s suffering, people’s pain, more than you will every know yourself.

You have to go with things that you understand. Businesses that you know.

Compassion allows us to understand that, as citizens of the planet, we’re all in this together and that in order to ensure our survival we must hold and cultivate a new and larger vision of what’s possible for ourselves and for the human race as a whole.

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

To be understood and accepted could change so many lives.

The Booker triumph of Graham Swift’s moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.

We must understand that governments cannot create real jobs. Only entrepreneurs can do that.

When I do not understand, I like to say nothing.

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It’s very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.