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Quotes About Understood

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.
~ Saint Augustine
I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!
~ Jenna Elfman
A funeral was a thing they understood; dissent was something they did not.
~ Melissa Fay Greene
I have had the pain of fragmentation deeply impressed upon my consciousness. The alienation felt by many people who are concerned about domination – the struggle we have even to make of our words a language that can be shared, understood.
~ bell hooks
The preachers tell us that pride is a great sin, but the preachers are wrong. Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation and the Danes understood that. Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
~ Bernard Cornwell
When you finish reading a script and think it is good but have reservations about a kissing scene, it means that you haven't understood the script completely.
~ Parineeti Chopra
Sometimes a song becomes rhetoric, but you have to really empathise. You also have to leave room for both sides of the argument: even if you're not telling the other side, you have to put that part in parentheses and make sure it's understood.
~ Jason Isbell
Even to be flown out to New York was mind boggling for me, and signing with Columbia was great because they really understood my vision. Of all the labels that I met, they were the ones that really seemed to understand that I was really about the music, the writing, and the lyrics, so it was really fulfilling to sign with them.
~ Ruth B
we understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.
~ Sue Grafton
Again the girls assented. The words of command having been thus explained, he set up the halberds and battle-axes in order to begin the drill. Then, to the sound of drums, he gave the order "Right turn." But the girls only burst out laughing. Sun Tzu said: "If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame.
~ Sun Tzu
No one ever understood disaster until it came.
~ Josephine Herbst
At the end of my second year I understood something I'd been incubating for several months: that my law studies were of no interest or use to me whatsoever, for my only obsession was reading fiction and, finally, learning how to write it.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Something without the cello," she muttered. "If I have to do it, you have to do it," Sarah said with a smirk. Iris glared at her with all the fury of a misunderstood artist. "You don't understand." "Oh, believe me, I do," Sarah said with great feeling. "I played last year, if you recall. I've had an entire year to understand.
~ Julia Quinn
I was upstairs," she continued, "and it was stuffy, and hot. Only it wasn't hot, but it felt like it should be." It was the damnedest thing, but he understood.
~ Julia Quinn
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
~ Flann O'Brien
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. —Helen Keller
~ Billy Hayes
Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
~ Helen Keller
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
~ Helen Keller
I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion.
~ Sorin Cerin
The pirates understood what drove men
~ Stephan Talty
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
~ George Orwell, 1984
A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce