Understood Quotes
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.
The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.
But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.
I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.
If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.
Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.
Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.
Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.
I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.
But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.
She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.
I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.
To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.
Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.
... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people.
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.
It is a low thing to always want to be understood. Let my innocence take care of itself.
Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets
Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.
What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!
I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. "Thank you for believing in me " I said and maybe they understood and maybe they didn't.
His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. “Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,” he whispered. She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.
And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep." Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.
People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.
It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.
We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones.