Understood Quotes · Page 41

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing…

— Steven Soderbergh

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is…

— Mark McKinnon

... an essential feature of a decent society, and an almost defining feature of a democratic society, is relative equality of outcome…

— Noam Chomsky

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood…

— Cormac McCarthy

Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at…

— Dean Koontz

I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as…

— Wendell Berry

I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Asa Gray

We, the women and men of the Church, we are in the middle of a love story: each of us is a…

— Pope Francis

Me writing the book and the subsequent interactions that we had were actually the cap on that experience. We were still in…

— Melissa Febos

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it…

— Chris Bosh

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.

— Betty Eadie

Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. “He’ll spare…

— Charlaine Harris

The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions…

— Sue Monk Kidd

When I came here [to Malaysia] I heard that there is a problem with the concept of pluralism whereby pluralism is understood…

— Tariq Ramadan

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

— Michael Helm

Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you…

— Bruce Kovner

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

— Anna Quindlen

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me.…

— Ernest Hemingway

I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm…

— Bruce Chatwin

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that…

— Mary Daly

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

— Lesley Howarth

Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the…

— Michael Marshall Smith

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation.…

— Jeffrey Sachs