Understood Quotes · Page 111

Daniel took Luce’s hands in his. He closed his eyes, inhaled, and let his massive white wings unfurl. Fully extended , they…

— Lauren Kate

I'm Asian-American, and I was the only Chinese girl growing up in a white school in San Diego. So I understood what…

— Tess Gerritsen

Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have…

— Louis O. Kelso

Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most,…

— Anthony Hopkins

While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphael’s Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal he’d once been, the one who…

— Nalini Singh

Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.

— Alija Izetbegovic

Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision.…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want…

— Johnny Ball

I don't know any other job that the off-the-field issues - especially something personal like that - affects your job. But as…

— Adrian Peterson

I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting…

— Javier Bardem

Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more…

— George Saunders

“Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point…

— Isobelle Carmody

I know there were periods of times where I didn't feel understood, and there were very few people around me that I…

— Mahershala Ali

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not…

— Gerald R. Ford

Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

— Rufino Tamayo

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted…

— Sara Sheridan

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

— David Deutsch

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where…

— Edward Abbey

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

— George Orwell

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries…

— Dahlia Lithwick

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

— Hanif Kureishi

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

— Brad Meltzer

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that…

— Theodore Bikel

“Every danger loses some of its terror once its causes are understood.”

— Konrad Lorenz