Understood Quotes
By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.
You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood
I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.
What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.
Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.
I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.
Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.
Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.
I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.
Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.
Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.
My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.
There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.
If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.
The well understood equity as well as interest of society demand that we work on much more to prevent crime and offenses than to punish them.
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.
For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.