#understandable

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

#artist #authoritarianism #corruption #embarrass #expose

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#certain #easy #fall #going #into

Music, in the past few years... anything singable or understandable is square. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#few #in the past #music #past #square

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#danger #downturn #downward #give #history

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

#away #been #deals #delay #desire

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one. ↗

— Alfred Einstein

#arrive #catalogue #connected #doing #dry

My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids? ↗

— Eric Braeden

#barely #country #enough #goes #heart

It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

#course #favourite #know #people #series

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

#hidden #indifferent #man #nature #reasons

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

#even #explain #get #i #i believe