Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In terms of my relationships with a lot of the adult characters, when I was working with Harrison, it wasn't like a… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity,… — David Bosch Copy Share Image
The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“The word “crisis” is from the Greek, meaning “a moment to decide.” The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are… — Jill Purce Copy Share Image
My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune. — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without… — Leonard Mlodinow 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
I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way. — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress… — Alda Merini Copy Share Image
This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
Once I understood what was going to happen - that I was going to prison for life - my end goal was… — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image