A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.
This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.
Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.
The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
My understanding is that a book becomes a best seller only when it is pirated, sold on footpaths and at traffic lights.
Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
Buying art is not understanding art.
I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
The beauty of love, as far as I'm concerned, is it makes you better. It makes you stronger. It gives you direction. It gives you understanding of what life is and what we've been given.
I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.
This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.
I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.
Like John Major in her wake, Thatcher was convinced that she understood the Scots - yet couldn't understand why we remained so stubbornly resistant towards the notion of understanding her.
