To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.
She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, and said nothing about it, and prayed for the power to forgive, and did forgive. But he can't have found living with her forgiveness all that easy. Br...
Drizzt looked long and hard at the young woman, tje dedicated warrior, and he understood that Danica, too, had been forced into a great sacrifice because of Cadderly's choice. He sensed an anger within her, but it was buried deep. overwhelmed by her ...
Isaac Sachs: Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the Theory of Relativity and Principles of Uncertainty: phenomenon that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it ...
One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.
