Understood Quotes

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something-it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

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.

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.