Understood Quotes

In the Anthropology Club, as I understood it, you were permitted, if not required, to despise only one thing, and that was your own culture, that of the West.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory.

I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.

When I think about my career and how it all started, it really started with me getting to a point where I understood how to write songs that resonated with people.

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.

There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation is, in fact, the Declaration of Independence.

Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?

Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!

I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood.

If only you understood the way I felt... it wouldn't help much because I don't really like you as a person.

Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.

The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.