When you are starting to fall in love with someone you want to know everything there is to know about them; you want to understand their world and be accepted into it. It is the same for an actor with a new role.
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
I understand now that nobody could have saved Ty but Ty. There’s no one else to blame. Not you. Not me. Ty was holding all the cards.
... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.
I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.
Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.
You are like the kid who even cannot understand the different between a kiss on the cheek and a kiss on the lips; simple and devoted unlike the rest of the world.
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
Who tries to sabotage my time and priority in life can never understand the sensible, best choices of my heart.
It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.
What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.
No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.
I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.
I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.
I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe... but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?
Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.
Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.
We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.
