#understand

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. ↗

— William Penn

#help #i #i do #lord #me

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#because #been #children #concerns #could

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise. ↗

— Idries Shah

#donkeys #ego #evolution #intelligence #poses

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle. ↗

— Oliver Platt

#catching #directors #end #fluidity #good

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life. ↗

— Ma Rainey

#cause #come #feel #got #hear

President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women. ↗

— Cecile Richards

#issue #matters #obama #president #president obama

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#come #entertained #lively #once #spirit

I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#best work #boundaries #cable #certain #come

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#day #day to day #find #fragile #heroes

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#computers #difficult #elizabethan #enjoyment #form