Understood Quotes · Page 47

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

— Karen Russell

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.

— Steve Kluger

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.”

— Melina Marchetta

I don't think my dad understood my character as a child growing up.

— Bez

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

— Marco Pierre White

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

— Omar N. Bradley

It's understood in Minnesota that we're going to start losing businesses if we can't find more workers.

— Amy Klobuchar

There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though…

— Diana Gabaldon

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat.…

— David Levithan

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries…

— Dahlia Lithwick

I've never understood the use of vulgar language, but the definition of 'risque' is open to interpretation. I suppose I did many…

— Carol Channing

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or…

— John Rawls

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans…

— Dana Goldstein

When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship…

— Stephen Covey

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must…

— John George Nicolay

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of…

— Mehcad Brooks

I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over…

— Nicole Krauss

The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could…

— Joe Hill

We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when…

— Cynthia Heimel

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know,…

— Jon Meacham

If he even survives." She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth. "It's that bad?"…

— Cinda Williams Chima

The Church is our Mother, which means it is an internal voice. It is not a set of external rules. That's what…

— Francis George

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must…

— Cary Grant

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

— Bob Schieffer

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

— Richard Rohr

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

— Peter Falk

Van Heusen understood Sinatra's style of singing; Sinatra understood Van Heusen's concept of melody.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

— John Clare

What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.

— Jamie Tworkowski

The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.

— Terence McKenna

Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.

— Deepak Chopra

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is…

— John Lancaster Spalding

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

— George Saunders

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

— Mikhail Lermontov

Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it…

— Paul Cornell

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

— Hermann Hesse

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

— William Ames

The teaching of Jesus, if properly understood, would do away with organized temple worship altogether.

— Wallace D. Wattles