For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
What I heard my mom always say was that, while she was never naive, she understood the FBI's intent was, obviously, to… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it,… — George Saunders 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
When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I grew up in church and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and… — Shane Harper Copy Share Image
This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood.… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
I've just never seen a live event [like Oscar] where the emotional swings - it was just stunning.And it was interesting because,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to… — Ramon Llull Copy Share Image
'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
Coming from an artistic family was really helpful because they understood that music is a real job, that I can make money… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
When I was young, clothes were really just about what fit, because Ashley and I were so tiny. So I understood fit… — Mary-Kate Olsen Copy Share Image
He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Earlier, even I used to think that I would be doing theatre all my life, but as I grew, I understood that… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Now, I can admit that as a young boy growing up in Florence, I couldn't have understood the pain that some of… — Tate Reeves Copy Share Image
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Somebody under 30, if the name Frank Zappa came up, they would just say, "Who?" To me that didn't sit well, because… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never understood why sourdough was the quarantine It Girl. Why go through the process of baking bread when you could just… — Ego Nwodim Copy Share Image
Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism.… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image