Understood Quotes

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Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional… — Bob Dylan
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. — William Feather
Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's first priority should… — Bill O'Reilly
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to… — Kenny Smith
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. — Martin Heidegger
I think that's all a form of wanting to let go, of wanting to get out... It's not something easily described or understood. — Marilyn Manson
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced… — Henri Poincare
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt,… — Francis of Assisi
In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still a… — Jesse L. Greenstein
There is only one basic desire that motivates the spiritual seeker-to make the experience of God, of divine bliss and joy, the center of the… — Douglas Bloch
Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each… — Susanna Clarke
I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much. — Sarah McLachlan
I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she… — Mary Stuart Masterson
It is tragic-comic to see that all this knowledge and understanding exercises no power at all over men's lives, that their lives do not express… — Soren Kierkegaard
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery… — Henri Nouwen
The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood — Andrew Lo
Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an… — Robert Henri
Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of… — Banana Yoshimoto
She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she… — Sara Sheridan
Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood? — Pope Francis

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