Understood Quotes

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The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things… — Michael J. Fox
I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I… — Al Franken
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content… — Sigmund Freud
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. — Mahatma Gandhi
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been… — Barry Goldwater
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. — Barry Commoner
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. — Norman Cousins
Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will… — Leonardo da Vinci
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by… — Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear… — Marie Curie
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to… — William A. Dembski
Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was… — Alan Dershowitz
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible… — Junot Diaz
It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed. — Vin Diesel
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry… — Annie Dillard
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods,… — Paul Dirac
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. — Walt Disney
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation,… — Frederick Douglass
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks. — Trevor Dunn

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