“you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song
Source: The Last Song
“Before you hate something you should try to understand it.”
Source: Dakota
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Before you hate something you should try to understand it." by Martha Grimes?
Martha Grimes2
American crime writer and literature professor 1931Related quotes
“Before you say you can't do something, try it.”
Kiichiro Toyoda (1894–1952) Japanese businessman
Attributed to Sakichi and Kiichiro Toyoda in: Emi Osono, Norihiko Shimizu, Hirotaka Takeuchi (2008), Extreme Toyota: Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer. p. 86
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
She said softly, “I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.”
Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 19 “Defeat!” (p. 163)
“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”
Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) German-American psychologist
Attributed to Kurt Lewin in: Charles W. Tolman (1996) Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995. p. 31.
Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
"The Idea of God" from Essays from Epilogue (Manchester: Carcanet, 2001)
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer
Letter to George Devine (10 March 1964), printed in Kenneth Tynan : A Life by Dominic Shellard<!-- Yale University Press, 2003, --> , p. 292
Context: I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
Journal entry (1938), quoted in the Introduction to a 1994 edition of Of Mice and Men by Susan Shillinglaw, p. vii
Context: In every bit of honest writing in the world … there is a base theme. 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 nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. Try to understand each other.
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Source: The Flame is Green (1971), Ch. 9 : Oh, The Steep Roofs of Paris
Context: Listen now to a series of sayings that always come hard to brave people. Our own great movement will grow with its own impetus wherever it is not blighted. We will break up persons of blight and centers of blight. But often, and this will be the hard part for all of you to understand, we will warn and advise before we kill. And quite often we will not kill at all. Try to understand this.
“Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician