No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Franz Schubert

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
Marie Antoinette

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
Peter Frederick Strawson

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
Franz Schubert

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
Jim Bishop

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.
Iggy Pop

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
John Bonham

Not to be blasphemous, but I wonder if even the Holy Trinity understands the American tax code.
Maurice Carroll

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
Leo Ornstein

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.
Jennifer Beals

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.
Julie Benz

On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.
Marc Racicot

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
E. T. Bell

People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress. When any of my constituents writes me a letter, I promise you, we're listening.
Charlie Norwood

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
Eugene Wigner

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
Fred Barnes

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.
Jeffrey Sachs