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Quotes About Understood

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
~ Van Morrison
The fundamental principles of prosperity in every country are so well understood that they need but little if any discussion. They are so simple that with the proper cooperative action the American people collectively can easily place this wonderful country of ours in the position that it is so well qualified to hold among the nations of the world.
~ Charles M. Schwab
Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.
~ Charles A. Beard
Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.
~ Jermaine Jackson
I think it's always been understood that Canada is not a country that's going to stand up and beat its chest on the world stage, but we can be very helpful in modelling solutions that work.
~ Justin Trudeau
Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
~ Saint Bernard
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
~ Benoit Mandelbrot
Okay, a lot of people think that I'm someone known for a love of eggs and egg cookery. Being asked to endorse an egg yolk separator, I mean, I understood where it came from, but it didn't seem necessarily like something that was ultimately worth pursuing.
~ Wylie Dufresne
I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating.
~ Nick Denton
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
~ Berry Gordy
I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.
~ Joel Coen
Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterprise.
~ Charles H. Townes
Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.
~ Willie Aames
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
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea.
~ Hans Hofmann
And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.
~ Tony Shalhoub
I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.
~ Andrea Bocelli
You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.
~ Avril Lavigne
But it needs to be understood that alcoholism is a disease not a lifestyle choice.
~ Adrian Dunbar
I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
~ Asa Gray
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
~ Jane Campion
I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.
~ Earl Butz
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
~ John Lasseter
It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.
~ Campbell Brown