Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us. — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately. — Peter Falk Copy Share Image
I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
You were just worried about me." An exhale, relieved that I had understood. "Yeah" I turned. "Because you think I'm worth it"… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
When I was transitioning, I assumed that cis woman had it down somehow, that they'd had this childhood and they understood what… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The Framers of the Constitution wisely understood that constitutional principles must not be sacrificed on the altar of political appeasement. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables -… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
I was nearly 41 when I had my last child. I felt that was late, that I was pushing Mother Nature to… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
The new concept of the child as equal and the new integration of children into adult life has helped bring about a… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
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