If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
He sighed deeply: to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see,… — Betty Neels Copy Share Image
I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain:… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Hearing Mr. Trump in person, I finally understood why millions of voters, especially voters who have been ignored and left behind in… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him. — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image
The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech.… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
It was great working with Dhanush. Since we are married, it worked to my advantage because we were in sync and understood… — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image