You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco Copy Share Image
McCain was so passionate and determined, but he was also practical. He understood what a heavy lift it was to get a… — Dana Bash Copy Share Image
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art. — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly… — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether… — Lucille Clifton 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
I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm not just going to go on these fishing expeditions. I didn't do that with President Obama. We didn't go through this… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had… — Betty Hill Copy Share Image
I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life. — Amy Koppelman Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
