Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
Mike Tyson

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
William Faulkner

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.
Frank Sinatra

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
Annie Leibovitz

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice Walker

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Paulo Coelho

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Paulo Coelho

If you would judge, understand.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca