Understood How Quotes

41 quotes by 39 authors

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little… — George Clooney
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and… — Catherine of Genoa
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run… — Robert A. Heinlein
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. — Thomas B. Macaulay
It was far more fun than work doing those shows for all those years, we all loved each other and loved going to work, we… — Steve Kanaly
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view. — Sonia Sotomayor
What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more… — Bill Gates
I mean, I understand that because they're disadvantaged that they deserve their own parking spots, but do they have to make them so wide? I… — Zach Braff
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for… — Richard P. Feynman
it wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was… — Kanye West
Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should… — Henri Matisse
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
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
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
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
As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized. — Charles Alexander Eastman
Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones… — Mary Oliver
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything. — Van Morrison
What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize,… — Marina Tsvetaeva

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