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Quotes About Understood

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
~ Anne Reid
I've thought of the independents as a stable industry for a little over two decades, and that's because I stably worked in it, so I've understood it that way.
~ Samoa Joe
I've grown in maturity because I understood from an intellectual standpoint how serious Covid-19 is and all the effects it was having on our society.
~ Harrison Barnes
Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.
~ C. S. Lewis
I had worried sometimes about making the transition into being grown-up – how did you know when to begin? Now I understood that you stepped out into it, as simply as into a day
~ Tessa Hadley
Human life is a series of mistakes justified by reason; there is no escape from it since the reason is the first mistake born out of a process subsequently understood as the very life by the very reason!
~ Thiruman Archunan
Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.
~ Thomas Bernhard
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
~ Thomas Boswell
Rightly understood, it is an all-embracing, intrusive question, and for this reason many prefer to dodge it or to proceed as if it were an abstract, theoretical question.
~ Thomas C. Oden
I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight
~ Nirad C. Chaudhuri
She makes me feel...she makes me feel.
~ Nora Roberts
If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, The author of this book is mistaken; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
~ Norman Geisler
The erotic power was a natural aphrodisiac, and he suddenly understood what a rush edge play could be.
~ Claire Thompson
A mystery is not something that cannot be known, but something that for the time being is hidden.
~ Clarence Larkin
People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read.
~ Clive Barker
My destiny has been that I remember and must weave together, must plait into one cable the many threads, the thin, the thick, the broken, the enduring of our long history, of our tumultuous and varied day. There is always more to be understood; a discord to be listened for; a falsity to be reprimanded.
~ Virginia Woolf
I first understood that things which to me had seemed natural were actually forbidden
~ Vladimir Nabokov
And I understood that everything that used to be beautiful about Eden was perhaps hideous.
~ Lars von Trier
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
~ Laurence Sterne
All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion served, would quote; No matter whether right or wrong; They might be either said or sung.
~ Samuel Butler, Hudibras
though they didn't exactly draw their skirts aside they managed to convey their message.
~ James Herriot
Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very, very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.
~ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Some uncomfortable moments later Day told me she had a prior engagement and was running late. It seemed she had made girl plans with a girlfriend of hers to do some girly things girls do when they get together with others of their kind. I said I understood, and I did. There is no doubt in my mind of the gender of Day's companion this night, and perhaps other nights I did not know about.
~ Thomas Ligotti
One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood
~ Tim Flannery