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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
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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
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
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
Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens.
— Francois Hollande
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
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
People may be understood through the art they produce or by descriptions from friends and family, by observation, or through their dreams.
— Salomon Grimberg
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
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
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
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 were simply meant to be. He understood this was a ludicrously romantic notion.
And he didn't give a fuck. — Kristen Ashley
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
— Roman Jakobson
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 wonderfulthing, 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
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
Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.
— Klaus Krippendorff
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
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
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
