Quotes About Understood

compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired

To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

Anyone who wants to be understood will never know the delight of being understood, because this happens only to the complex and misunderstood; simple souls, the ones whom other people can understand, never feel a desire to be understood.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself.

If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.

It is understood that these gifts have a dual nature, though: a gift is also a responsibility.

It is understood that these gifts have a dual nature, though: a gift is also a responsibility. If the bird's gift song, then it has a responsibility to greet the day with music.

The makers if the world understood.a world of being, full of unseen energies that animate everything

It is understood that these gifts have a dual nature, though: a gift is also a responsibility. If the bird's gift is song, then it has a responsibility to greet the day with music.

There are those who have labored all their lives to gain the gift, striving until the end only to find themselves mistaken; and those who had it born in them yet never knew; those who lost heart too soon; and those who should never have begun at all. "Count yourself lucky," the potter went on, "that you have understood this now and not spent your years in vain hope. This much have you learned, and no learning is wasted.

Machinery was so much easier to deal with than people. There was always a precise set of reasons why a machine may not be working, and there were always completely logical solutions. People were slippery and elusive, changeable and moody. You thought you understood them and then found out that you did not. You thought they loved you, and then they suddenly turned spiteful or indifferent.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

I would rather be a swineherd at Amagerbro and be understood by the swine than be a poet and be misunderstood by people.

H. Ford standing by his assembly line cried out, 'If the people of this nation understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution tomorrow morning.

If the people of this nation understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution tomorrow morning.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

Everything was hidden. I now understood it was our duty as human beings to see behind the veil to the inside of the world, to the heart of things.

She had even considered that poetry might be her calling. She had something inside her no one understood, that much was certain, and that sort of isolation often led to a poet's life.

deep inside could only be deciphered by someone who understood how easily a heart could be broken. "Wake up," Shelby would

All that must disappear Is but a parable; What lay beyond us, here All is made visible; Here deeds have understood Words they were darkened by; The Eternal Feminine Draws us on high.

A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood—a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved.

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

The commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood by magnifying the commonplace.