No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English.
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.
People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.
If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
We are dealing with God's thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.
If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.
When one person attempts to “fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.
Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.
It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.
The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.
When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.
