Understood Quotes

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I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic,… — James Mace
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind… — George Washington
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake. — Abraham Verghese
The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose parameters for how… — Tom Vanderbilt
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft to… — Richard Greenberg
Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was… — Paolo Bacigalupi
...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do… — Iain Banks
He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ... Pi understood this… — Clare Vanderpool
Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species. — Barry Mazur
It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps… — Michael Atiyah
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled… — Barbara Kingsolver
Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?) — Alan Coren
The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead. — Omar N. Bradley
All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood. — Lucy Grealy
Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that? — Paula Scher
Virtue is the strength and power of daughters of God. ... If all humanity really understood the importance of the statement â€˜We are daughters of… — Elaine S. Dalton
Life can only be understood backwards. — Mackenzie Astin
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,… — Robert Grosseteste
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood. — Robert Rauschenberg

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