Understood Quotes

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In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history… — Helen Keller
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. — Sophie Swetchine
The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again,… — Daniel Defoe
it wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was… — Kanye West
For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals, — Georges Simenon
I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western… — Bruce Chatwin
Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to… — Alex Toth
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood. — Burton Richter
John needed to escape his reality. I understood completely but I couldn't go along with him. — Cynthia Lennon
Wilderness can be appreciated only by contrast, and solitude understood only when we have been without it. We cannot separate ourselves from society, comradeship, sharing… — Sigurd F. Olson
I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's… — Seimone Augustus
It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of… — Michael Arad
This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776… — Bill Bowerman
Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood. — David Dreman
Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how… — Manti Te'o
One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule. — Ron Luciano
Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead… — Barbara Brennan
Above all, there was Almah. Everything combined to make her most dear to me. My life has been such that I never before had seen… — James De Mille
When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems… — Franz Schubert
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. — Soren Kierkegaard

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