Understood Quotes · Page 36

The Palestinians should have understood by now that what they haven't gotten today they won't be given tomorrow.

— Ariel Sharon

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

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

— Kofi Annan

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

— Tucker Carlson

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

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

— Thomas Carlyle

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in…

— Moses Mendelssohn

This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives…

— William Bligh

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.

— Phil Hine

When President Clinton opened NATO's doors in 1994, some predicted a crisis with Russia. That did not occur, mainly because the Kremlin…

— Antony Blinken

The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as…

— Ronald Reagan

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to…

— Lew Wasserman

love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I understood that at the core, our essence is made of pure love. We are pure love-every single one of us. How…

— Anita Moorjani

In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with…

— Gore Vidal

We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress…

— Alda Merini

We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This…

— Thomas Gordon

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy…

— Richard Branson

As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament…

— Leonard Cohen

Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance…

— Richard Wright

The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get…

— Bill Courtney

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

— Albert Einstein

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

— Cass Sunstein

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

— Chris Pine

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

— Giordano Bruno

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

— Timothy McVeigh

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

— Tim Wu

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

— Adora Svitak

The government in Havana is best understood as a cross between violent left-wing radicals and organized crime.

— Ben Domenech

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

— Quentin Crisp

It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

— Peter Garrett

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

— Ted Kotcheff

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

— Robert Breault

I used to wonder how anyone could treat a fellow human as God. I never understood why they would do this.

— Mani Ratnam

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

— Ramana Maharshi

Don't try to understand everything. Because sometimes it's not meant to be understood, but to be accepted.

— Anonymous

I've never understood why somebody on the same side of the ball would hate on another guy.

— Jalen Ramsey