“After all, she understood people so well, as well as Fredrick understood his library.” — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
“That’s why the survivor clubs formed. The only people who really understood were the people who had been through those experiences.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“I’ve never understood what people mean when they say they have to find themselves. We know who we are. The hard part… — Mike McIntyre Copy Share Image
Being pregnant is a wonderful thing. I have never understood why people make such a big deal of it though. — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by… — Chris Gabrieli Copy Share Image
“I’ve never understood people who grind through a book they don’t really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I could go on and on about how the statements and concepts that used to depress me now bring me joy, but… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“May was the best person I ever knew… She understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be.… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
I believe if people understood each other more, if people took the time and realize it's not 'all about me' and I'm… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
“Because the fact of not being understood by other people had become my only real source of pride, I was never confronted… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic. — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places?… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success.… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
There's just something about being a young, working class, working poor, person of color in New York City in the 80's that… — Sofia Quintero Copy Share Image
“The notion that commercial contracts should be written in plain English so as to be understood by people who would never be… — Charles M. Fox Copy Share Image
![“[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and this never failed her, for nobody ever disappointed May. Seems people knew she saw the very best of them, and they'd turn that side to her to give her a better look.” quote by Cynthia Rylant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00b/cynthia-rylant-21571_disappointed_may-understood-people-and-she-let-them-b_1319498.jpg)
![“[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges…” quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-671_birth_he-understood-the-people-in-a-new-way-th_897711.jpg)
