Understood Quotes

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

The message I understood was this: Just don't get caught!

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.

Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.

After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated

Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.

People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.

--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of humanity is understood and attested.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

You can take it as understood, That your luck changes only if it's good.

When I arrived the players were talented, but did not obey the rules... Once they understood what they needed to, they could express themselves.

Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

The dance of the flower in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, cannot be understood by the head; the heart has to be open for it.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

It's a luxury to be understood.

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

Honor is a term much used but little understood.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

Henry Ford didn't just create a cheap way of getting away from your in-laws; he basically understood that there was something in us as a culture that wanted to be on the move, that wanted to get out.

What's lightly hid is deepest understood.

It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.

He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.

I never understood redemption when I was young. Even before I was an atheist, I always thought with the prodigal son, "well, why's he getting the special treatment?"

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.