Quotes about Understanding
The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
— George Lucas
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
— GK Chesterton
People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.
— Hillary Clinton
I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.
— Joel Osteen
Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.
— Joyce Meyer
The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
— Tony Robbins
Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
— Alister McGrath
Come now. let us reason together.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.
— John Lennon