Understood Quotes · Page 39

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

— Lorna Luft

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

— Adam Braun

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

— J. Michael Straczynski

“I like few things better than to have my work read and understood.”

— William Blackwell

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you

— Jodi Picoult

It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.

— Richelle Mead

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and…

— Fritjof Capra

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

— Eve Ensler

I understood early on that I was not the best-looking girl in the room. But I knew my advantage was a hard…

— Erin O'Connor

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every…

— Henry James

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt…

— Andrea Bocelli

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased…

— Paul Gauguin

The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes…

— Thomas DiLorenzo

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator…

— Alexander Hamilton

We all need to kind of preach to ourselves. I grew up in church, and I don't think I necessarily understood what…

— Shane Harper

Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as…

— Kristin Cashore

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal,…

— Martin Luther

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed

— Frank Capra

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

— Terence McKenna

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

— Anonymous

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

— Henry Ford

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

— Laurie Anderson

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood,don't write fiction.

— Mary Gaitskill

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

— Bell Hooks

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

— George Herbert

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

— Richard Bach

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

— Jean Gabin

Me and Jadon understood each other very well and he's a top player.

— Erling Haaland

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

— Susan Sontag

I would think that if you understood what sex education is, you would get down on your knees and worship a condom.

— Jane Fonda

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

— Alexander Haig

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

— Randall Terry