But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people. 296
I understand what it’s like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, ‘She’s got her daughter; she’s got her husband.’ Yeah, but she hasn’t got anyone else. 289
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it. 342
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease. 323
Watching John Lasseter’s films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he’s doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him. 259
I don’t understand the Democrats’ approach to Social Security in this country, and I’m not alone. 779
I understand and get when kids and teenagers feel like they’re alone and it’s not going to get better. My advice is that there is a support system out there, there are a lot of people who have been through what you’re going through and are going through it now. 349
Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President’s widow? 607
For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year? 271
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. 400
I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights. 955
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself. 898
