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I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry. -- Michael Symon
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. -- Glenn Beck
The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to. -- Joseph Wambaugh
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. -- William Trevor
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. -- Unknown
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. -- Christopher Lasch
I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer. -- Stanley Clarke
The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values. -- Henry Giroux
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. -- Plato
There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. -- Shunryu Suzuki
My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on. -- Crystal Chappell
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. -- Eric Hoffer
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. -- Jeff Bezos
Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. -- Tina Brown
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries. -- Nicholas Negroponte
The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that. -- Antony Beevor
You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding. -- Zooey Deschanel
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. -- Gustav Mahler
What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period. -- Stevie Wonder
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. -- Tony Blair
Where there is no love there is no understanding. -- Oscar Wilde
Hillary Clinton has no understanding of the economy at all. -- Rudy Giuliani
I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings. -- E. Lockhart
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. -- Thomas Yellowtail
Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it. -- Eleanora Duse
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all. -- Chinua Achebe
I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. -- Werner Herzog
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. -- Tennessee Williams
Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Without a serious study of journalism, there can be no understanding of citizenship, democracy, or community. -- Roy Peter Clark
There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation. -- Niall Ferguson
There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator. -- Fritz Lang
I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it. -- Ernest Hemingway
There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme. -- David Souter
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy. -- George Ayittey
What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning? -- Sherry Turkle
If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that. -- Rosanne Cash
Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he's called the Stig. -- Jeremy Clarkson
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences. -- Michael Arrington
Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. -- Amiri Baraka
Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. -- Amiri Baraka
I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can't explain them, and those who haven't known them have no understanding of them at all. -- Michael Ende
. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped. -- Beatrice M. Hinkle
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because they don't understand Islam to be a church. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have. -- Heraclitus
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. -- Karel Capek
Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person. -- Nhat Hanh
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons. -- Barry N. Malzberg
Todd paused and stared into Terrence's eyes. there was no understanding there, just a white-hot rage and fear. he was looking at Todd the way you would look at a kid on ritalin who'd just taken a loaded shotgun down from the mantel. -- Wrath James White
Some are drawn to the light of your strength but can't handle the darkness of your weaknesses. If they run when the light gets dim, don't chase them. They have no understanding of how dark is necessary for light to shine its brightest. -- Sanjo Jendayi
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem. -- Boris Johnson
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it. -- Richard Branson
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal. -- Mark Helprin
As an actor, you have total rights to privacy and mystery, whatever your sexuality, whatever you do. I don't see why that has to be something you discuss openly because you do something in the public eye. I have no understanding of why we turn actors into celebrities. -- Ben Whishaw
Love has no meaning without understanding -- Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no hospitality like understanding. -- Vanna Bonta
There is no better therapy than understanding. -- Jimmy Piersall
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- Henry Williams
I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them. -- Hannibal
Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true. -- Richard Saul Wurman
All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no. -- Susan Sontag
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. -- Dean Koontz
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother -- Homer
I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding. -- Samuel Johnson
Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices. -- Jayni Chase
Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does. -- Roger Penrose
Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. -- Nhat Hanh
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. -- John Bunyan
Why this fuss about understanding women?! It's so simple. All we want is everything, no compromises. -- Shweta Bhatnagar
Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab... -- Wendy Mogel
There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics. -- Andreas Feininger
I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one. -- Albert Memmi
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless. -- Shannon L. Alder
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. -- William Shenstone
There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment. -- Mooji
True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding. -- Meher Baba
Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding. -- Christopher Barzak
There will be no peace in our world without an understanding of the place of religion within it. -- Tony Blair
Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding. -- Guy Finley
There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind. -- Vilayat Inayat Khan
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. -- Kenzaburo Oe
Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate. -- Dolly Parton
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense. -- Johan Huizinga
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems. -- Charles Colson
I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight. -- Margaret Bourke-White
No one has more than scratched the surface when it comes to understanding and explaining the miracle of the market. -- Leonard Read
Without understanding the process of the self, there is no bais for thought, there is no basis for right thinking. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. -- Tom Robbins
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted -- Carl Sandburg
When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are. -- Sally Field
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. -- Sarah Fielding
There is no wisdom without mastery over the mystery of our internal world, the world that opens the door to understanding others. -- Tian Dayton
When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God. -- Ben Bova
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. -- David Sedaris
He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband. -- Michel de Montaigne
However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is. -- Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth. -- Henry Ward Beecher
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history. -- Lisa Kleypas
To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. -- Jane Austen
No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content. -- Howard Stringer
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. -- Bob Proctor
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. -- George Soros
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force. -- Wendy Beckett
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept. -- Mark Regev
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out. -- Mark Fuhrman
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort. -- Jostein Gaarder
Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up. -- Neil Gaiman

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