Understood Quotes

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.

I could never before say that I loved color or that I understood color. But Oscar de la Renta opened up a side of my brain.

When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that I've understood, it seems to give people a lift - an unshackling or freeing.

Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.

When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

When it's time to write a new song, anything that you thought you understood last time is pretty much pulverized.

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?"- Tana to Gavriel, page 20 chapter 3

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.

I've never understood why people get mad at others for not being interested in them romantically - especially when there are so many reasons to be mad at people that are within their control.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.