Understand

Famous quotes containing the word understand:

“But if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“I can grouse about the food, and the C.O. and anything I blame please. And that’s more than you with your Gestapo and your storm troopers and your Aryan bourgeois. Ahhh, nuts. What’s the good of talking to you. You can’t even begin to understand democracy. We own the right to be fed up with anything we damn please and say so out loud when we feel like it.”
—Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)

“I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)