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An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. -- Emile M. Cioran
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered. -- Tad Williams
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. -- Phil Crosby
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. -- Theodore Roethke
Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them. -- Ella Maillart
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. -- Galileo Galilei
The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable. -- Lillian Gish
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. -- Ama Ata Aidoo
Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?' -- Barack Obama
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. -- Francis Schaeffer
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable. -- Mick Jagger
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock. -- Dieter Rams
I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. -- Jane Smiley
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change. -- Paul Hawken
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time. -- Daniel Kahneman
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. -- Al Gore
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons. -- Neil Cross
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. -- Yousuf Karsh
It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role. -- Maurice Allais
We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in. -- Armin van Buuren
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer. -- Alan Siegel
We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely. -- Charles R. Swindoll
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist. -- Stephen Hawking
The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. -- David Suzuki
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer. -- Harbhajan Singh
When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Good design makes a product understandable. -- Dieter Rams
Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional -- Carmine Gallo
People react positively when things are clear and understandable. -- Dieter Rams
Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable. -- Tabitha Soren
Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable. -- Domenico Gnoli
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. -- William Golding
Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena. -- Richard P. Feynman
Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind. -- Alfred Jarry
I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed. -- George A. Romero
Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square. -- Ethel Merman
The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd. -- Mieczyslaw Jastrun
It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is. -- Edward Boyden
People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable. -- Phil Klay
Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad. -- Mark Twain
Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God. -- Ray Comfort
It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series. -- Jonathan Brandis
I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear. -- Anson Mount
One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models. -- Andrew Tan
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like not to understand. -- Richard Saul Wurman
It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney. -- Kevin Keegan
Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset. -- Irene Rosenfeld
The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable. -- Robert Greenberg
Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job. -- Tim Pawlenty
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph. -- E. J. Hughes
I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue. -- Rory Bremner
It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny. -- Michael Snow
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. -- Noam Chomsky
Barcelona is now in the past. I was sick and boxed in, and that's understandable why I lost. -- Noureddine Morceli
When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question. -- Annabelle Selldorf
I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable. -- Massimo Vignelli
The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe. -- Noam Chomsky
I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful. -- J. Christopher Burch
Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea. -- Laurie Beth Jones
In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual. -- Piet Mondrian
Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect. -- Frank Loesser
It's understandable that Europe's Muslims are in a difficult situation, which is partly their own doing and partly not. -- Wolfgang Schauble
Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel! -- Noga Alon
Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons. -- Rob Thomas
If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable. -- David Halberstam
When you play with Kobe Bryant, the ball is gonna be with him most of the time, which is understandable. -- Steve Nash
The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public. -- Paula Scher
Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.- -- Christian Smith
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why. -- Hugh Newell Jacobsen
The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us. -- Billy Graham
While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it. -- Alexandra Adornetto
It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty. -- Dick Thornburgh
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. -- George Bellows
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act -- Jurgen Habermas
I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act. -- Jurgen Habermas
Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret. -- Anthony Liccione
Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. -- Carl Sagan
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. -- Francis Schaeffer
If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can't get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible. -- Geeta Iyengar
Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time." -Hodge -- Cassandra Clare
I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character. -- Diane Paulus
To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question. -- David Bayles
I am probably afraid that some spectator will not understand my photography - therefore I proceed to make it really less understandable by writing defensibly about it. -- Ansel Adams
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there. -- Alistair Cooke
There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable. -- Tariq Ramadan
It's perfectly understandable and proper for one to be anti-Semite, but to exterminate women and children is so extraordinary, it's hard to believe. No defendant here wanted that. -- Julius Streicher
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer. -- Roberta Williams
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions. -- Leonard Mlodinow
We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions." -- Leonard Mlodinow
The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present. -- Terry Eagleton
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men. -- Galileo Galilei
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone. -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. -- Mitch Kapor
Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans. -- Nguyen Viet Thang
Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it. -- Tan Twan Eng
Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images. -- Arthur Tress
Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts. -- Tupac Shakur
There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone. -- Werner Herzog
The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable. -- Laurie Graham
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible. -- Paul Dirac
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock. -- Dieter Rams
I prefer to stay in my country. But this doesn't mean if someone does want to leave Iran, I think they've done something wrong - the desire to leave is completely understandable. -- Asghar Farhadi
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way. -- Antony Hewish
We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste. -- William R. Brody
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable. -- Marya Hornbacher
The study of meditation is the entrance into the world of Wonderland. It has nothing to do with how you'd like it. You want a nice neat little study that's easily understandable. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice -- Dalai Lama
When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that nobody knows anything and everyone must decide for themselves. -- Sarah Ruhl
There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives. -- Francoise Mouly
The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising. -- David Levithan
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope. -- L. Neil Smith
Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost.... -- Paul Quarrington

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