Understood Quotes · Page 29

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I…

— Gene Tierney

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.

— Henry de Montherlant

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

— John Adams

“I’ve got people I want to understand and people I want to be understood by.”

— Haruki Murakami

As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.

— Marianne Williamson

“I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides”

— Daniel Willey

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

— Gail Carriger

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

— William Godwin

If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the…

— Anonymous

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any…

— Peter Weir

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept…

— Anne Michaels

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I played sports, so I understood quickly I shouldn't be eating fast food because it was slowing me down, making me feel…

— Wilmer Valderrama

If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I…

— Paulo Coelho

I've never really understood tattoos. I mean, it's your body - why would you wanna scar it? I don't mind other people's…

— Juergen Teller

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

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

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word.…

— Gerard Way

Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,…

— Maximilien Robespierre

I have been a vegetarian for forty-two years. I did it because I didn't want animals to die so I could eat.…

— Sam Simon

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

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

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

— Albert Einstein

“All of this was understood, and if not condoned, at least pardoned.”

— Margaret Atwood

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

— Barbara Ann Kipfer

Your articles are for when it absolutely, poistivley, needs to be understood overnight.

— Morrie

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

— Clara Hughes

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

— Jeff Bezos

I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

— Carrie Brownstein

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

— William Feather

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children…

— Igor Stravinsky

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

— Anonymous

Don't try to understand everything because sometimes it is not meant to be understood, but rather accepted.

— Anonymous

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

— Sydney Schanberg

Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person.

— Kumi Naidoo

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

— Dhanush

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

— Junot Diaz