Understood Quotes · Page 22

On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.

— R. Kelly

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

— David Crystal

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

— Brenna Yovanoff

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

— Hillary Clinton

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

— Christian Morgenstern

“I don’t think you ever really understood…. …. All the love I had in the world went to you.”

— Ranata Suzuki

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a…

— Anonymous

What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with…

— Hilary Mantel

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity.…

— Junot Diaz

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

— Eddie Obeng

People have tremendous power, more than the average person understands, and certainly more than even I understood before I came to Congress.…

— Charlie Norwood

Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t…

— Ricky Gervais

Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield--a tactician's greatest sin--like zombies…

— Scott Kenemore

He first thing to be understood: effort is needed, but effort alone is not enough -- effort and then effortlessness, effort plus…

— Anonymous

When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your…

— Rebecca Solnit

The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for…

— Jo Coudert

Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was…

— Omar N. Bradley

Me writing the book and the subsequent interactions that we had were actually the cap on that experience. We were still in…

— Melissa Febos

The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest…

— Jacques Maritain

Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the…

— Robert Cormier

Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.…

— Simon Barnes

In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech…

— J. I. Packer

I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would…

— John Green

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best…

— Christopher Walken

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was…

— Neil Postman

I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that…

— Muriel Beadle

In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the…

— Elie Wiesel

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It needs to be understood that global warming countermeasures could transform the economy and foster growth, not hinder it.

— Yoshihide Suga

Everything that I talk about, pretty much, are things that I learned or understood over the years.

— Tyler Perry

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

— Anonymous

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

— Moliere

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

— Shinya Yamanaka

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

— Chris de Burgh

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

— Carl Jung