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Understanding You Quotes (page 2)

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. Charles Kettering
If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His wa? not in a human way that ignores God. Oswald Chambers
Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion. Thomas Harris
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid. Susan Hampshire
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. Michael Bloomberg
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you. Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you. Phyllis McGinley
As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace. Anne Rice
I quite understand you. You mean that an innocent lie for the sake of a good joke is harmless, and does not offend the human heart. Some people lie, if you like to put it so, out of pure friendship, in order to amuse their fellows; but when a man makes use of extravagance in order to show his disrespect and to make clear how the intimacy bores him, it is time for a man of honour to break off the said intimacy., and to teach the offender his place. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all. Aleister Crowley
Tupac Shakur quote: "There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you..."
There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated Tupac Shakur
I'm wondering whether I can explain," said Lee. "Where there is no likeness of experience it's very difficult. I understand you were not born in America." "No, in Ireland." "And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing." "If you cut your queue, dressed and talked like other people?" "No. I tried it. To the so-called whites I was still a Chinese, but an... John Steinbeck
Will Rogers quote: "The minute you read something that you can't understand, you..."
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. Will Rogers
Alice Hoffman quote: "No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a..."
No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way. Alice Hoffman
The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship. Leighton Meester
Carrie Fisher quote: "We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English..."
We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else. Carrie Fisher

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