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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.
All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.
I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.
It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would have conjured up such a cowardly and depraved assault upon thousands of innocent people.
The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
Heaven is not so terribly different from this present existence to where we can't even comprehend or understand it. Otherwise, when we arrived there, we would be completely lost and we wouldn't be able to relate to it.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result.
The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.
For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.
Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it might have understood.
A photograph is a picture and no more true or false than any other depiction; why is that so hard to comprehend?
When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.
Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.
I've never been able to comprehend why people are interested in my personal life, cause I'm not like that.
Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.
We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!
They didn't know what to do with rap music. You walk into Epic, and they're wearing straight-leg khakis with creases, Prada shoes with tassels. They couldn't comprehend where I was coming from.
The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.
I often think about what I want my sons to fully comprehend in regards to how sport industry unfairly operates.
I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation and/or experience. Writing became my therapy!
I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
I'm looking forward to working for the 'Tribune' because any company that can invest in the Chicago Cubs has a view of the future we cannot begin to comprehend.
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.
Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.
A voice is in the wind I do not know
A meaning on the face of the high hills
Whose utterance I cannot comprehend.
A something is behind them: that is God.
Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.