Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Inglis

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

John Kerry is to be congratulated for understanding something that his party's most extreme elements have yet to comprehend - Ohioans know how to count.

Alfred Adler

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.

He can't comprehend what we've been through. He's a father. I want to tell him what we've been through.

Patti Smith

I did not comprehend and I often wonder what he ever saw in me, and it has taken me all these years to understand.

Mohsin Hamid

In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

Algernon Sidney

'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

Rabindranath Tagore

Want of love is a degree of callousness; for love is the perfection of consciousness. We do not love because we do not comprehend, or rather we do not comprehend because we do not love. For love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is

Arthur Clough

This world is very odd we see, We do not comprehend it; But in one fact we all agree, God won't, and we can't mend it

Max Stirner

The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the 'immoral' man. 'He who is not moral is immoral!' and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar - Requires sorest need.

Just because we can't comprehend this kind of evil, doesn't mean he suffers a mental illness. We will never understand evil like this.

I am from the oil industry and remember when the price was $US10 (a barrel) in 1999 and everyone was saying its going to $US5 (a barrel) ... it was unbelievable to even comprehend a $US50 (a barrel) oil price.

That's what I said today. You know, 'How could you do this to him?'... I don't know what possessed him to do it. I can't even comprehend that.

That's been a problem for us. It's hard to comprehend because we do have some offensive weapons.

No one can comprehend the loss here unless they've been up here. This is a mystical place.

Theodore Schultz

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

It's just unbelievable. It's a situation where it's hard to comprehend that it's actually happened. Caleb was an outstanding young man and he will be dearly missed.

Jason Bay

It's more flattering now than anything, ... It's hard to comprehend something like that until it is done.

These people come from other places, and they want to make all these changes, they can't comprehend why we do this. My grandfather, my father and my uncles -- they all taught me to shoot fish. It's our history.

Dan Wilson

It's tough for me to comprehend and take this all in.

Stanley Hauerwas

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

Few people I think fully comprehend the seriousness of the problem that the South and Southeast could be facing in the next several weeks - it's an experience that few Americans have ever experienced.

Gary Hume

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

Samantha Barks

I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

Herman Melville

So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.

Steve Williams

It was a long race with the headwind and then it was all over pretty quickly. Just trying to comprehend what (we've) just achieved. It was fantastic.

Steve Williams

It was a long race with the headwind and then it was all over pretty quickly, ... Just trying to comprehend what (we've) just achieved. It was fantastic.

The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.

Ezra Benson

This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.

Michael Leunig

Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

Kofi Annan

It was so brutal, so quick, and so extensive that we are still struggling to fully comprehend it.