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
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what… — Peter Kinderman Copy Share Image
Although I was always very happy in Britain, I never stopped thinking of America as home, in the fundamental sense of the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Music changes, life changes. It's like Jay Z said: 'If people like the old Jay, then go listen to the old Jay.'… — O. T. Genasis Copy Share Image
Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people who… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating… — John A. Macdonald Copy Share Image
The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the… — Loretta Young 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
Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I believe that Donald Trump is someone who is not fully understood for how compassionate and what a great boss he is… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when… — Stephen L. Richards Copy Share Image
I didn't have much ambition, but I always had an idea in the back of my mind that I wanted to act.… — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
Evolution is good for optimising and that is well understood. But evolution also creates things that no one knew were even possible. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its… — Emily Maguire Copy Share Image
