Understood Quotes · Page 30

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

— Jonathan Swift

If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world.

— Anonymous

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

— Joan Didion

'It's much better to understand than to be understood,' from my mom.

— Cara Santana

You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.

— Charlie Peacock

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that…

— Audrey Niffenegger

For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live,…

— Jacques Ellul

Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like…

— Grace Kelly

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be…

— Alice Hoffman

The first news event I understood as a small child was the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, which President Reagan eloquently…

— Pete Buttigieg

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling,…

— Alison Gopnik

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it…

— Ana Castillo

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued…

— Caleb Cushing

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us…

— Anton Chekhov

maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was…

— Albert Camus

Creating a portrait of a female point of view in an environment that we've pretty much exclusively understood through a male perspective…

— Meera Menon

It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the…

— Seth

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy…

— Martin O'Malley

There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was…

— Paulo Coelho

You see weird things driving... I've never understood log trucks, sometimes you'll be out on the highway, you see two big giant…

— Brian Regan

There are a lot of negotiators that really will give in on a deal because being understood is more important than getting…

— Christopher Voss

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

— Noam Chomsky

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the…

— Saint Bernard

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.

— Prince

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.

— Sadako Ogata

Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.

— M. Scott Peck

I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy

— Megan McCafferty

Boxing is the only thing I have ever understood - I certainly don't understand women.

— Tony Bellew

Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.

— Tucker Carlson

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

— Kofi Annan

What is very little understood about the electronic age is that it angelizes man, disembodies him. Turns him into software.

— Marshall McLuhan

I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

— Elayne Boosler

If you can't explain it simply, you haven't understood it enough.

— Albert Einstein

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

— Franny Billingsley

Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.

— Maria Montessori

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood.

— Dov Davidoff