#understand

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#culture #english #i #just #me

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.' ↗

— Gary Busey

#doubt #know #stands #thoughts #understanding

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#going #hurting #people #understand #you

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand. ↗

— George W. Bush

#country #decisions #everybody #i #know

To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body. ↗

— Jenson Button

#big #body #brakes #car #corners

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes. ↗

— Alton Brown

#because #book #common #cooking #exploration

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#been #beginning #great #i #myself

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#constitution #democracy #discipline #disciplined #freedom

We only understand that which already is within us. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#only #understand #us #which #within

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

#belief #cannot #city #complex #consequences