A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught… — Daniel H. Ludlow Copy Share Image
Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I always supported gay issues, but I never understood transgender issues. But after I heard Bruce Jenner speak so honestly, so sincerely,… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I kind of understood inherently - and I wasn't really conflicted about this - that comics were not for me or by… — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me… — Benoit Lecomte Copy Share Image
By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
…I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food… — Harold Bell Wright Copy Share Image
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth'… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished,… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using… — Galina Vishnevskaya Copy Share Image
I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by… — Paul Shaffer Copy Share Image
In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny.… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel… — Hilla von Rebay Copy Share Image
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of… — Daria Halprin Copy Share Image
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
My mother understood human nature better and never chided. She knew that a man cannot be saved from his own foolishness or… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
