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The real business of life is trying to understand each other. -- Gilbert Parker
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other. -- Ian Mcewan
If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves. -- Sarah Gadon
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other. -- Tori Amos
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other. -- Martin Scorsese
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages! -- Sergei Bubka
The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less. -- Robert Kagan
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other. -- George Eliot
I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other. -- Josephine Baker
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. -- Randall Jarrell
Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us. -- Macaulay Culkin
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. -- Havelock Ellis
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. -- Paulo Coelho
Enthusiasts soon understand each other. -- Washington Irving
America and China need to understand each other. -- Joan Chen
Some hearts understand each other, even in silence. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking. -- Ry Cooder
I just want to understand how people misunderstand each other! -- Ramana Pemmaraju
All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other. -- Lester Levenson
Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not. -- Paulo Coelho
We think we understand each other, but we never really do. -- Luigi Pirandello
If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. -- John Steinbeck
Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology. -- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . . -- John Steinbeck
You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other. -- Ray Davies
We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other. -- Jose Saramago
I think it's important for Americans to try to understand each other a little better. -- George Packer
They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other. -- Darren McCarty
Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well. -- Evan Esar
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature. -- Fran Lebowitz
We need more people who love humanity and the world, people who want to understand each other. -- Zhu Zhu
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other. -- Yo-Yo Ma
The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes. -- Dorothy Dix
Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other. -- Rumi
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. -- Sara Jeannette Duncan
Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
What we need to do from God's perspective is that we need to reach out and understand each other. -- Robert Hood
The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
I think what we need is to understand each other much more, especially with the whole world right now. -- Jeppe Hein
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. -- Robert Breault
Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries. -- Jane Goodall
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. -- Joan Didion
[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other. -- Amy Goodman
The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other. -- Geoff Johns
And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts,Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids. -- I Ching
Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don't understand each other. Not at all! But that's what makes relationships so amazing. -- Kevin Hart
And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves. -- Betty Smith
To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other. -- Michelangelo
We don't understand each other. That's why there are so many bad things happening; a lot of it has to do with not understanding. -- Jeppe Hein
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other. -- Nicolas Roeg
The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect. -- Dalai Lama
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage? -- Howard Stringer
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. -- Karl Kraus
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore. -- Rudyard Kipling
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground. -- Fred Rogers
Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other? -- Jay Woodman
They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other. -- Emile Zola
A bilingual marriage, by the way, is a great way to stay together for longer than you normally would because you can't understand each other very well. -- Poe Ballantine
Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all. -- Scott Bairstow
We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences. -- Julian Schnabel
If you don't learn about each other, you do not understand each other, and you don't hide warts and all, both sides, then you're forever going to repeat history. -- Warren Mundine
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music. -- Peter Kreeft
Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love. -- John Steinbeck
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other. -- Louis J. Camuti
Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight. -- John P. Kotter
When I dance, I look like I'm a dad at a prom. I never grasped my limbs. Ever since puberty I've just kind of felt like we don't understand each other. -- Jennifer Lawrence
You lose a child and you do understand each other's grief at first, but if you get out of step with each other, it's all over. Suddenly each of you is alone. -- Alison Bruce
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia -- Hideki Tojo
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. -- Hideki Tojo
INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said. -- Ambrose Bierce
I just take the Cleveland Browns - we are a very close football team. We care about each other, and we understand each other, and we have conversations on everything under the sun. -- Andrew Hawkins
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. -- Maya Angelou
What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party. -- John Keats
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers. -- Alan Lightman
We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion. -- John Yau
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence. -- Kevin Spacey
I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years. -- Joe Wright
You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web. -- Gloria Steinem
I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere. -- Pearl Primus
The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within. -- Carson Grant
Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion? -- T. S. Eliot
After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems. -- John Mellencamp
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The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become. -- Alphonse Mucha
Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible. -- Kalan Sherrard
It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great. -- May Sarton
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better. -- Zhang Ziyi
Sometimes when I go out and drink with my friends, they will say, "Seungri, don't be discouraged. I like Seungri. Why do you walk with your head down? Have more confidence, lift your head and walk." I guess friends understand each other. -- Seungri
There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend. -- Gwen Stefani
I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running. -- Imogen Poots
Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It wasn't like they didn't understand each other. They understood each other better than anyone else, and each was focused solely on the other. -- Gen Urobuchi
Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about. -- Kehinde Wiley
The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other. -- Barack Obama
For 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona,' for example, Woody Allen is one of the greatest American directors, and we really had a very good working relationship. We understand each other really well. He gave me one of the best opportunities somebody has ever given me in my career. -- Penelope Cruz
One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything. -- Herbie Hancock
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man. -- Henrik Ibsen
I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds." -- Renata Adler
And here I thought you were actually going to behave yourself," he said. "It's going to get worse if they don't keep their hands off you." "I suppose you're going to tell me now that only you have the right to touch me." "I see we understand each other. -- Johanna Lindsey
Children don't understand about people loving each other and then suddenly not. -- Gene Tierney
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand. -- Billy Joel
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. -- Franz Schubert
When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other. -- Eve Ensler
With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other. -- Michael Franti
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this. -- Martin Scorsese
I don't understand why or how we can bully each other. -- Aurora Aksnes
If we understand we need each other, we will keep together. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other. -- Marilyn Monroe
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why. -- Truman Capote
Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other . -- Nicholas Sparks
Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy. -- Jim Stovall
The connection, that's what's important - that through this medium we can, perhaps, understand and touch each other. -- Paolo Pellegrin
I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I do not understand, why should mankind destroy each other?. Instead of building and working together for the common good? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world. -- Stephen King
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless -- John Henry Newman
We must learn to talk with each other, and we mutually must understand and accept one another in our extraordinary differences. -- Karl Jaspers

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