Understood Quotes

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It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood. — Domenico Dolce
It seemed glamorous when I used to go into work and get to be on a trading floor or see how the business worked a… — Erin Duffy
The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion. — Kevin Rudd
I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew… — Ed Koch
When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the… — Chuck Hagel
After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a… — Paul Henderson
When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on… — will.i.am
Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming he would fight… — Christina Romer
A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures by changing growth… — Kenneth R. Miller
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All… — Maria Semple
As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much… — Mike Bouchard
In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time… — John Burdett
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society. — Laura Esquivel
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without… — Nawal El Saadawi
Thank God my hair is always the same. And I get dressed very quickly. I am not one of those people who spend three hours… — Carolina Herrera
If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right. — Martin Heinrich
When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he… — Lysander Spooner
When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved… — Saint Ignatius
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption. — Jonathan Swift
Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had. — Oscar Wilde
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself.… — James Allen
We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them — Francois La Rochefoucauld
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the… — Bible

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