Understood Quotes · Page 28

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

— Lucy Grealy

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

— John McCain

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

— David Bohm

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

— Klaus Krippendorff

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

— Criss Jami

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

— China Mieville

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

— Colum McCann

I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that…

— John Coltrane

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of…

— Pablo Picasso

What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to…

— Calvin Coolidge

The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great…

— Anthony Trollope

As soon as we showcased the Wii in 2006, people immediately understood. At that E3 show, I was up on the stage…

— Satoru Iwata

Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.

— G. C. Berkouwer

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And…

— Charlotte Gray

I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you…

— Lupita Nyong'o

It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but…

— Ani DiFranco

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version…

— Walter Lippmann

Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I…

— Bruce Lee

I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood.…

— Shakti Gawain

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

By creating a prosecutor who is overseen over by a court, they are melding executive and judicial power in a way that…

— John Bolton

The vocation and mission of the faithful can only be understood in light of a renewed awareness of the Church as sacrament…

— Pope John Paul II

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

I had a massive heart attack, and in my belief that I was close to dying, I took the opportunity to teach…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

— Chaim Weizmann

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

— Lionel Trilling

My father knew how to speak in Pushtan; he understood the Afghani culture very well.

— Mukul Dev

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

— Brennan Manning

In return for anything we lose . a Million things become understood

— Anonymous

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

— Fred Alan Wolf

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

— Julie Christie

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

— Horace Mann

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

— Andy Grove

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

— Bjork

I'm only responsible for what I said, not for what you understood.

— Anonymous

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

— Christopher Lasch

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

— Alice Hoffman

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

— Alain Robert

My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How…

— Michael Caine