Understood Quotes · Page 40

I've never understood why the knowledge training and rigorous testing of London cabbies isn't rolled out all over the U.K.

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Nowhere else, perhaps, is the Quran recited so much and understood so little as in India.

— Naseeruddin Shah

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

— Esther Dyson

If only you understood the way I felt... it wouldn't help much because I don't really like you as a person.

— Dov Davidoff

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the…

— Ishmael Beah

My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.

— Robbie Robertson

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

— Nora Ephron

“Anyone who wishes to be understood had better be sure he has made himself intelligible.”

— Ayn Rand

What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know…

— Glenn Greenwald

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as…

— Judith Butler

I've always been competitive. I don't think I understood how competitive I was at a younger age. I just played really hard…

— Alex Caruso

I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us.…

— Bernie Sanders

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it…In this way our…

— Shunryu Suzuki

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life…

— Benny Goodman

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly…

— Roy H. Williams

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I…

— George Clooney

Katsa hugged her for a long time, and Bitterblue understood that this was always how it would be. Katsa would come and…

— Kristin Cashore

There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of…

— June Jordan

If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written…

— James Fenton

I was risking a very promising and lucrative future in the business world that I was all set up to receive. I…

— Idara Victor

In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical…

— James Clerk Maxwell

War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have…

— Steven Erikson

In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing…

— Kwame Dawes

Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming…

— Christina Romer

What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

— Morton Feldman

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

— Vera Brittain

If the voters really understood what we were up to they'd vote us out of office.

— Robert Byrd

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

— Victor Wooten

Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though.

— Dia Mirza

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for…

— Debbie Reynolds

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

— Tom Stoppard

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

— Voltaire

I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.

— William Golding

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.

— Kurt Vonnegut

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than…

— Cory Booker

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I understood that menstruation - the indication that you're a real woman - stopped if you grew weak from illness

— Aya Kito

I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music.

— Matt Bellamy

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

— Brad Meltzer

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

— William Godwin