Understood Quotes
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
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I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
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In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.
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What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.
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As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.
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All these years later, the world knows who I am, ... When it was first released, nobody understood who I was.
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The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.
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If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
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A God you understood would be less than yourself.
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Metallica lives in a little bubble. We just do our own thing. We're not part of any trends or waves or fads. We can just do our own thing, all the time. It's a great luxury. I don't think we were really appreciative of it until recently, and really understood that it is what keeps us alive. It's great to be able to have the freedom to run around and do all this crazy stuff, and at all cost, avoid making another record, just to piss our managers off.
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
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I figured a woman can't be understood the way a man can. Women have purposes men can't even imagine.
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If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
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I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
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I didn’t tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I’d have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he’d understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else.
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.
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I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
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Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining.
