Understood Quotes · Page 80

I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to…

— Augusten Burroughs

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her…

— Betty Friedan

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

— Miguel Serrano

I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were…

— Henri Matisse

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 have never understood cards my whole life. I could never learn card games, I didn't have the patience for them.

— Jacob Elordi

Conservative statesmen from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan sometimes supported protectionism, and at other times, they leaned toward lowering barriers. But they…

— Robert Lighthizer

People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled…

— Alice Hoffman

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

— Elie Wiesel

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's…

— Dane Rudhyar

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person…

— Swami Satchidananda

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

— Clara Hughes

Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into…

— Adriana Trigiani

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

— Zeena Schreck

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

— Plato

Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and…

— Richard Meier

In nonviolent communication, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear…

— John Adams Gilmer

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was…

— Jenna Elfman

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas

How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength…

— Anonymous

I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I…

— Vince Vaughn

When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we…

— Tina Brown

And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve... I never realized, I…

— Barry Lyga

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had…

— Neil MacGregor

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

That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

— Robert Breault

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

— Giordano Bruno

You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter…

— Reese Witherspoon

My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that,…

— Ansel Elgort

I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition.…

— David Lynch

Reason refuseth its homage to a God who can be fully understood.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be…

— Daniel Handler

Conscious communication is called Turiya-when you are totally effective, totally understood and totally truthful.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I've always felt like I was a guy that understood my role. I thrive because I love it.

— P. J. Tucker

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

— Cynthia Kenyon

Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the…

— Robert Cormier

Lewandowski reminds me a bit of me. I was a bit of a mix of him and Ronaldo. I also understood playing…

— Marco van Basten