#understand

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#beijing #china #desires #effort #enter

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#classify #feeling #field #go #hunt

I understand that I'm a role model. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#model #role #role model #understand

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. ↗

— Brian Eno

#best work #completely #do your best #fascinated #i

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#away #english #go #go away #i

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#am #annoying #being #being myself #challenging

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#amount #available #did #edition #his

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. ↗

— John W. Vessey, Jr.

#battlefield #because #been #english #english language

Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#deliver #even #foreign #foreign language #hard

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#italians #land #love #marvellous #more