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He said what nobody understood was, she always felt like a bird in a cage--she wanted to be without roots. — Kate Alcott

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion. — Linda Blair

If you understood everything I said, you'd be me — Miles Davis

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood. — Leonardo Da Vinci

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers. — Gore Vidal

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

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing. — Esther Hicks

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. — Johann Heinrich Lambert

If you understood him, it would not be God. — Augustine Of Hippo

Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. (23-24) — Jean Vanier

Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it
-Barrow's Uncertainty Principle — John D. Barrow

Ruth understood a man's character to be more important than youthful romance — Vikki Kestell

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well. — Sherman Alexie

My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage. — Tina Fey

Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens. — Francois Hollande

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown. — Carl Jung

Sometimes I think I want to run away and disappear but what I really want is to be understood. — Tina J. Richardson

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. — Thomas Jefferson

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all. — Sophie Swetchine

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over. — Barbara Ann Kipfer

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood. — George Santayana

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did. — James Baldwin

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards — Adeline Yen Mah

I didn't know where they had taken his body, but I understood her impulse to be here. To be with him, even without him. — Kami Garcia

Above all, anger needs to be felt so it can be talked through, understood and integrated, rather than acted out. In this way, it cleanses the self. — Tian Dayton

I understood, that he was right in asking to be cremated. For if he was nowhere, he could be everywhere. As in, with me. — Elizabeth Berg

His curse in life was to be attracted to people who understood him. — Glen David Gold

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed. — Prince

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood. — Lesley Howarth

A God you understood would be less than yourself. — Flannery O'Connor

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. — Anais Nin

People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams. — Salomon Grimberg

It is so commonplace," she drawled, "to be understood by everybody. — Ayn Rand

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end. — Hesiod

People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common. — Walker Percy

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood — Julia Quinn

Home should be the shelter where the teen is understood and loved, where he is encouraged and shown the paths of life. — Tedd Tripp

Ultimately, people write to be understood (excepting Gertrude Stein and Tristan Tzara, who were intentionally being difficult). — John Scalzi

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I understood how it felt to be dirty even though it wasn't you who jumped in the mud — Kristen Ashley

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. — William Blake

Nothing in this world is to be feared ... only understood. — Marie Curie

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. — Jimenez Lai

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air. — John Bunyan

Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself. — Richard Rohr

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that. — Matthew Perry

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood? — Ludwig Wittgenstein

We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood - heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant. — Deborah Tannen

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue. — Bell Hooks

Marital psychological abuse suffered by a parent can never be understood by disrespectful, ungrateful, growing, biased, brainwashed children. — Angelica Hopes

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. — Plato

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge. — Cory Booker

I cannot be understood in three minutes. — Sidney Poitier

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

Rama's experiments suggest that some metaphors can be understood as mild forms of synesthesia. In — Jaron Lanier

The events of the past cannot be fully understood when you are the only element of the past actively engaged in reliving it. — Augusten Burroughs

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! — Miles Davis

I thought this life of thoughtful liberalism was my birthright, too. Before I understood that my generation was to be born in interesting times. — Maureen F. McHugh

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable. — Marjane Satrapi

It is a luxury to be understood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We understood, intuitively, that no one in this awful place could be judged by the standards of the ordinary world. — Nando Parrado

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

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease. — Dan Groat

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. — Geoff Mulgan

They were simply meant to be.
He understood this was a ludicrously romantic notion.
And he didn't give a fuck. — Kristen Ashley

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. — Betsy Lerner

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

...the world is complicated and it deserves to be understood complexly. — Hank Green

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand. — Joshua Reynolds

I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful
thing, a beautiful thing. — Andy Couturier

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour. — William Ralph Inge

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.' — Tom Stoppard

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal. — Jacob K. Javits

Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back. — Shannon Celebi

think if more people understood the reality, they'd be less inclined to classify the lifestyle as abusive, or demeaning. Those — Jason Luke

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind. — Woody Allen

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though. — Anonymous

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life — Emile M. Cioran

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth. — Norman Cousins

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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. — Dani Shapiro

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used. — Klaus Krippendorff

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. — Lionel Shriver

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. — Carol P. Christ

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard

What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. — John C. Maxwell

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed. — Marcus Brigstocke

Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power. — Jean Baudrillard

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. — Stephen R. Covey

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. — Earl Nightingale

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up. — Jimmy Connors

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals. — Paul Shaffer

I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood. — Jeanette Winterson

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. — Marcus Sedgwick

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life. — Soren Kierkegaard

The erotic power was a natural aphrodisiac, and he suddenly understood what a rush edge play could be. — Claire Thompson

I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine. — Craig Davidson