Understand Quotes

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.

I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.

The state security bodies should not be seen as an institution that works against society and the state; one needs to understand what makes them work against their own people.

I know I’ll look back on these days and wonder why were some so hard? I know already that they’ll be, the best I’ve ever had. I know I’ll look back on these seemingly impossible days and wish for them back. And I’m finally starting to understand what it feels like to be really loved.

And one day we will finally understand the sense of it all. Until then all we can do is hold onto hope.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.

I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don’t sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.