I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand. — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
I discovered my own way, my own method, my own style. Nobody had ever seen it before. Nobody understood it. — Frank Dux Copy Share Image
I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives. — Maya Harris Copy Share Image
The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Grace, properly understood, neither returns void, nor promote loose living!” — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that… — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Neurosis can be understood best as the battle between tendencies within an individual; deep character analysis leads, if successful, to the progressive… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Money is the most important subject intellectual persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
By creating a prosecutor who is overseen over by a court, they are melding executive and judicial power in a way that… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as just Sharia, it's not one monolithic Continuum - Sharia is understood in thousands of different ways… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York,… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I first understood the changes that were necessary in this world, because the waiters in the restaurant, when I cried, used to… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image