Understood Quotes

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The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me… — Roland Barthes
By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in… — Melissa Marr
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be… — Bill Gates
To understand and be understood is to be free. — Daniel Johnston
The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement â€¦every part and function of the body can… — Daria Halprin
As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him. — Charles de Foucauld
A God you understood would be less than yourself. — Flannery O'Connor
What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger. — Johann Georg Hamann
What's lightly hid is deepest understood, — Richard Wilbur
What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. — John C. Maxwell
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people… — Kate Morton
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at… — Rose Macaulay
A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of… — Stefan Zweig
Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him… — Rick Bragg
To understand my feelings â€” and my conception of the role of Secretary General â€” the nature of my religious and cultural background must first… — U Thant
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. — William Godwin
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified. — Leo Tolstoy
Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with… — Larry Norman
I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in… — Walter Mosley
Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to… — Susan Wiggs

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