Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.
Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters.
People don't understand the logistics of advertising. To have the ads purchased and run, you need to have a series of products that work together.
President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.
The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.
I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.
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When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each othe...
When society was patriarchal, as it was in the New Testament context and as it has been everywhere in the world except in modern society in our day, the church avoided scandal by going along with it - fundamentally evil as patriarchy was and is. Now,...
Jesus treats patriarchy the way he treats much else of the law and custom of his time: ambiguously, suggestively, and sometimes subversively, but never immediately revolutionarily outside the central matter of his own mission and person...The main sc...
There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on Earth." Eddie looked confu...
Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided with beautiful tools for understanding the impact of trauma. We become adept at...
And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond the sphere of logic, subtle, and to be understood by the wise'. The reason for this is th...
I'm taking inorganic chem and physics not because I want to but because I have to. Not every doctor wants to be a scientist. Some of us just want to take care of sick people. I can't help thinking that medicine is more closely aligned to the humaniti...
You could just do the work, you know,' I say. 'You could make better decisions, make a better life.' 'Yeah, I could,' he says. 'But I won't. We both know that.' I do know that. I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the wor...
