Understood How Quotes
41 quotes by 39 authors
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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
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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
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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
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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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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
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
— Van Morrison
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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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