#understand

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#any #aristotle #common #common people #counsel

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. ↗

— Mary Astell

#body #every #good #opinion #own

We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do. ↗

— David Axelrod

#arizona #deal #developing #federal #federal government

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#appreciate #cannot #caught #changing #correctly

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#free #free economy #free-market #guy #how

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off. ↗

— Jeff Beck

#been #before #finding #gets #guitar

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#easy #hard #strategies #success #tactics

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#bits #did #die #eat #just

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bigger #deal #great #great deal #i

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#great #hands #poet #understand #us