Understood Quotes · Page 42

It's a time to reflect and appreciate all the contributions that others have made to my career and my life. My vision…

— Karen Kain

But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite,…

— William Bayliss

What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did…

— Nicholas Sparks

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I…

— Michel Legrand

Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the…

— Tanya Huff

[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way…

— Susan Blackmore

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

— Robert Adams

I've always said, "I love the women's movement, especially when walking behind it." And I have never understood why it is that…

— Rush Limbaugh

You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out.…

— Andrew Jackson

I grew up with Tagore and nobody ever expresses the emotion of love like he did and he understood women so well.…

— Riya Sen

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as…

— Alice Walker

Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

— Duke Ellington

Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could…

— John Ehrlichman

That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active…

— Rodney Stark

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures…

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I…

— Hugh Nibley

She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As…

— Sara Sheridan

I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, I don’t use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that’s just me. That’s…

— CM Punk

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

— Leonor Fini

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms…

— Daisaku Ikeda

I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that…

— Jim Rohn

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and…

— Nhat Hanh

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through…

— Tom Robbins

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood…

— Wendell Berry