Understood Quotes · Page 91

Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only…

— Charles de Foucauld

I hope there's a window that opens in American television where the rest of the world is viewed in a less censored…

— Rula Jebreal

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among…

— James Thurber

Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again…

— Frederick Buechner

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of…

— Ludwig von Mises

I wouldn't say it came easy, but I understood how to win and I determined how I could do it.

— Kurt Busch

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking…

— Michael J. Fox

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it…

— Jane Austen

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then…

— David A. Bednar

[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin.

— Stephane Grappelli

The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy…

— Daniel Defoe

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.

— Marilyn vos Savant

I have never really understood why in this country so many people look down on black people.

— Lonnie Johnson

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

— Jenny Shipley

The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie…

— Anais Nin

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

— Marco Pierre White

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that…

— Audrey Niffenegger

My managers understood that when I sulk, they talk to me. It's a way for me to be heard.

— Dimitri Payet

In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what…

— Shane Carruth