Understood Quotes · Page 37

We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.

— Fred Hampton

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my…

— Ethel Waters

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.

— John Shelby Spong

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

— Julio Cortazar

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

— Van Morrison

I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'

— John Lasseter

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

— John C. Maxwell

“Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother,…

— Delores Phillips

I can’t tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girl… And this boy…

— Jennifer Flackett

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but…

— Edward Sapir

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot…

— Max Horkheimer

America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic.…

— Rush Limbaugh

I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one…

— Judy Blundell

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my…

— Patti Davis

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always…

— Will Rogers

I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from…

— Leonor Fini

I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the…

— Dolly Parton

The one big difference between the sexes is that I think women are always looking for love. We want more security and…

— Suzi Quatro

When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is…

— St. Catherine of Siena

It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young…

— Robert R. McCammon

Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting.…

— Isabella Bird

It goes without saying that no one at United ever expected any help. We understood that decisions can go against you. We…

— Paul Scholes

I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to…

— Louis Riel

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

— Gertrude Atherton

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

— Errol Flynn

Eventually, my eyes were opened, and I really understood nature. I learned to love at the same time.

— Claude Monet

What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.

— John C. Maxwell

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the…

— Markus Zusak

I never understood the importance of fans until we struggled and went through tough times.

— Kate Gosselin

“It does not matter what you write in English nobody has understood it anyway.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

— Jose Saramago

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.

— Marilyn vos Savant

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

— Tristan Tzara

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

— John Baldessari

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

— Tucker Max

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

— Akira Kurosawa

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

— Philip Roth

“I understood somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.”

— Kate Morton

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon