Understood Quotes
Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She wanted Po. And she could never be anyone's but her own.
Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.
Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful thing for our brand.
Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.
As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.
Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.
I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.
In New York, they understood that my country was not a country, but winter. And that my road was not really a road, but snow.
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.
What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read fiction to understand the human condition.
I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.
Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this encounter as its center.
Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.
Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.