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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

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Character displays the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood. — Nathan McCall

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

I love you forever didn't always need to be spoken to be understood. — J.R. Ward

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

Whenever God revealed himself to be seen by the fathers, he never appeared as he is in himself but as he could be understood by human minds. Since — John Calvin

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

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. — Paul Eldridge

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

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

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it. — George Whitefield

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

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

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living. — Phil Hine

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

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

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

It's a luxury to be understood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. — Virginia Satir

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. — Thomas Hobbes

I write to understand as much as to be understood. — Elie Wiesel

Don't try to understand women.
Women don't want to be understood,
they just want to be loved.
It is men who crave understanding. — Manoj Vaz

The things he had understood to be sin (murder, adultery, etc.) he now understood to be mere symptoms of the real problem: unbelief. — Michael Reeves

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke

Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information. — Stephen Jay Gould

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

[A] "poem" is understood as [something] referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures — Ben Lerner

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. — Marie Curie

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. — Edgar Saltus

I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it. — Anne Lamott

Patients and clients are sometimes hard to be understood! — Deyth Banger

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood. — Mary Rakow

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. — Horace Mann

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing. — C.S. Lewis

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me. — Lil' Wayne

Life is to be felt not to be understood. — Ravi Samuel

When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you. — Olaotan Fawehinmi

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person. — Kumi Naidoo

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. — Ralph G. Nichols

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated. — Gautama Buddha

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ... — Henri Poincare

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi

There is something to be gained with each misstep that is ultimately understood. — Robert A. Giacalone

Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about — Ringo Starr

Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad poetry spoken underwater. — Charlie N. Holmberg

I had never understood before the invisibility of a human. How what we take to be a person is in fact a spirit we can never see. — Adam Haslett

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

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. — William Penn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've never understood why it's a negative to showcase a talented, smart woman who also happens to be attractive. — Gretchen Carlson

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure. — Sarah Hepola

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that. — Urs Fischer

To understand and be understood is to be at peace — Kamand Kojouri

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

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

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

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

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

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists. — Gail Carriger

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

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

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

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

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

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