#understand

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#asking #doing #eight #how #i

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#even #i #make #people #understand

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#language #me #native #nothing #people

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#given #know #least #lie #makes

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#different #different things #foreign #foreign oil #fuel

With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured. ↗

— Dana Plato

#another woman #experiences #feels #i #i think

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. ↗

— Plato

#mightier #ordinance #than #understanding

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#bill #bill gates #computing #direction #gates

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#am #citizens #concise #constant #few

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#bowling #bowling alley #club #country #country club