Understood Quotes
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I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.
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I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.
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And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much.
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And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn’t have to be a killer.
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It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.
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I think that's when I understood that you only ruined my life because my life needed ruining. Because the life you rejected demanded that I spend all my time telling my daughter to be less and my son to be more.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.
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But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.
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I think of my father and how confused he was by me. He understood my love for theater, and he understood that New York City was the only place that it was happening in America, really, in any live way.
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It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
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And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask. But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
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I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.
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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
