I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred. – Steven Hatfill
We all understand that the debasement of a nation’s coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage! – Virchand Gandhi
We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom. – Sumner Redstone
I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations. – Sam Graves
But Mitt Romney understands, like I understand, that people – not governments – create jobs. – Scott Walker
I’ve never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don’t understand women, I’m off that kick. – Vincent Kartheiser
The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard. – Vikas Swarup
If you’re cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is. – Susan Sullivan
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. – Simone Weil
It’s difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it’s basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There’s no real rhyme or reason for that. So it’s difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course. – Warren Stephens
I’ve grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act. – Thom Mayne
My kids have been incredibly supportive of the work that I do. They understand why it matters. – Susan Rice
I don’t understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, ‘Oh, they ruined it!’ Well, the book is still there. – Susan Hill
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. – Thomas Sowell
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years’ time. – Zoltan Kodaly
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. – William Greider
You can’t instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue. – Tommy Lee Jones
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us. – Tracy Morgan
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. – Walter F. Mondale
I’m a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven’t lived in council estates; they’ve just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP. – Vinnie Jones
Sisters, some will try to persuade you that because you are not ordained to the priesthood, you have been shortchanged. They are simply wrong, and they do not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ. – Sheri L. Dew
I want kids to understand that strength doesn’t come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ. – Willie Aames
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. – Stephen Hawking
I’m not sure I’ll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc… but Jesus. – Tullian Tchividjian