Understood Quotes · Page 35

I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before.

— Michael Rosen

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

— Marvin Minsky

“...I understood how things can change in an instant. All the stuff we take for granted can just be ripped away.”

— C.J. Tudor

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

— Jodi Picoult

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.

— Theognis of Megara

“Brooks understood more than ever that she was the star of his life.”

— Lauren Kate

“If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn’t be smart enough to understand them.”

— David Eagleman

I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you…

— Asa Gray

By the time I came to the States, I really understood how a magazine works. I came to 'Vogue' as creative director,…

— Anna Wintour

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than…

— Thomas Merton

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of…

— Stanislav Grof

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by…

— Henri Nouwen

Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand -…

— Ivan Chermayeff

Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood…

— Kerry King

Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without…

— Suzy Kassem

Entanglement can best be understood as this: When subatomic matter is in a process together, subsequently the subatomic particles go apart from…

— Edgar Mitchell

In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with…

— Marianne Williamson

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of…

— Evelyn Waugh

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from…

— Jane Campion

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty…

— Charles Handy

Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers…

— Andrew Gamble

Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look…

— Jeff Vespa

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

— Barack Obama

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

— Allison Pearson

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

— Irena Sendler

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

— Brigitte Bardot

“I’ve never understood the appeal of anything referred to as ‘hash.”

— J.D. Robb

My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Lady Colin Campbell

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

— Alistair Begg

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

— Solomon Asch

Donald Trump really understood how to float a story, how to float a rumor, how to manipulate the truth.

— Jeannette Walls

A pain plan is something that's very understood between you and your healthcare provider.

— Travis Kelce

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

Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.

— Zicheng Hong