Understood Quotes

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Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they?… — Stephen M. Irwin
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood… — Hans Hofmann
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated. — Michael Behe
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very… — Michael Behe
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood. — George Herbert
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah
People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you. — Amit Abraham
It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances. — Cedric Benson
But Adam Smith was a philosopher as well as well as an economist, famous in his time as much for his Theory of Moral Sentiments… — Paul Ormerod
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.
You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it… — Mark Steyn
I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness. — Seimone Augustus
That, chang'd thro' all and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth as in th' Ã†therial frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in… — Alexander Pope
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of… — Sigmund Freud
The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate. — Hendrik Hertzberg
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased. — Kurt Vonnegut
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life… — Norman Cousins
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda,… — Douglas Coupland

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