They Understood Quotes

51 quotes by 49 authors

Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the… — Joe Randazzo
The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like… — Edward Ruscha
Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done. — Alain Robert
Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists… — Elliott Abrams
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating… — Wystan Hugh Auden
This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good… — William J. Clinton
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful,… — Joshua Foer
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors… — Jeffrey Eugenides
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that JosÃ© Arcadio BuendÃa was not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think… — Ernest Hemingway
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and… — Tom Clancy
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world… — Terence McKenna
You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one… — Ron Currie Jr.
Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I… — Ava Gardner
I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. "Thank you for… — Carrie Vaughn
A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in… — Heather Brewer
And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. — John Flanagan

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