Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.
Chief Joseph

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
Thomas Friedman

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.
Mike Krzyzewski

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
Jack Kevorkian

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that.
Angelina Jolie

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
Meryl Streep

Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
Maimonides

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
Maimonides

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.
Dan Quayle

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
Neil Armstrong

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
George Santayana