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My wife said to me ... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that. — Oliver North

I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. — Dalai Lama

I'm sorry, Sera. I never understood before. Not really."
"I wish you didn't have to understand now. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

When you maintain silence, you would have said to have understood the world. — Dada Bhagwan

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money. — Thomas Sowell

We are only prepared to receive and comprehend the grace of God when we have understood His infinite holiness and our incredible sinfulness. — James MacDonald

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in. — William Monahan

He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses. — Terry Pratchett

Ever since we discovered that Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us. — Carlo Rovelli

If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation. — David Brent

Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood. — Jacqueline Bisset

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them. — Spalding Gray

... could not have understood what perverted shaped thwarted love can take. — L.M. Montgomery

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

Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying. — Donald Hall

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it. — Boyd Rice

I thought of trying to catch her eye, so she'd know I understood what she'd done, but I decided not to. Everyone needs to think they have secrets. — Carol Rifka Brunt

Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren't called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?) — Alan Coren

I have never voted in my life ... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The one who understood that you don't always have to prove to the world that you are a man. — Hamidah Gul

If you protest, if you think that death is a terrible thing, then you have not understood a word I've said. Farewell, hello, farewell, hello. — Kurt Vonnegut

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple. — Kurt Vonnegut

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life — Dennis Prager

I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account. — Raymond Barre

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. — E. T. Bell

We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion. — Henry De Montherlant

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. — Karl Kraus

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time! — Douglas Feaver

Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did. — Sarah Dessen

I didn't say I understood her. I wouldn't have the presumption to say that of any woman. — Charles Dickens

Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood. — Sarah Dessen

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood. — Simone Weil

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood. — Thomas Carlyle

If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God. — Augustine Of Hippo

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. — John Ortberg

She wouldn't have understood how dark a side love could have, how hiding it was the kindest thing you could do sometimes. — Kristin Hannah

I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts. — Paula Hawkins

those who have not yet fully understood what the Savior meant with His command, or who have feared — Andrew Murray

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life. — Amy Koppelman

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. — Michelle Trachtenberg

Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all ... — Djuna Barnes

I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single object, and that no man ever can."
-from "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life — Walt Whitman

Yes, cower! If you simpletons truly understood what you have just seen, you would be down on your knees worshipping me! HA! HA HA HA HA HA! — Richard Roberts

And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn't have to be a killer. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man? — Jacob A. Riis

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud. — A.M. Homes

Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. — Frederick Lenz

I understood then why humans have noses. So we can find each other to kiss in the dark. — Melissa Darnell

Do not refer to your toy-books, and say you have seen that before. Answer me rather, if I ask you, have you understood it before? — Michael Faraday

When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad. — Joel T. McGrath

You have not known even a fragment of My reality. The full nature of this reality can never be understood by anyone. — Sathya Sai Baba

If I had known That day follows the night, That every shadow is cast by light, I would have understood The actions that he took. — Felix O. Hartmann

Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.
Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness. — Mizuki Nomura

But he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood. — Diane Setterfield

You did not have to like it because you understood it. He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care — Ernest Hemingway,

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting — Annie Dillard

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

Men have never understood the words of the wise. — Paulo Coelho

As is so often the case, the supposedly insignificant understood the psychology of the strong, while the strong didn't have a clue about the other. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. — Graham Greene

Your problem is that you have never fully understood the power of being a desired woman. — Kyra Davis

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. — Edith Wharton

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

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

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

I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. — Alan Bennett

I have never understood the Iowa caucus. — Larry King

I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism. — David Thorne

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

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita. — Mahatma Gandhi

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus

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

You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years. — Brian Morton

It might have been the first time in my life I understood what an easy bond it was, to share a neighborhood as we had done, to share a time past. — Alice McDermott

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Have you understood me? Dionysus versus Christ. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin. — Karl Pilkington

If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world. — Adora Svitak

Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood? — Laurent Fignon

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work. — Ai Weiwei

Have read little and understood less. — James Joyce

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred. — Saul Bellow

I have never understood the point of holidays, have never felt the need for them and have always just wanted to do more work. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Zerbrowski said, I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. — Niels Bohr

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. — Edward Norton Lorenz

I've never understood why anybody makes a big deal about mansions. It's just a house with more rooms. You still have to face yourself. — Dov Davidoff

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood. — Saul Bellow

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not. — Mason Cooley

One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms? — Tom Hodgkinson

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

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. — William Feather

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest. — Arthur Helps

The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role. — Sydney Schanberg