Understood Quotes
-
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.
-
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute. And so the soul in which we sail, Unknown by years of thinking, Is deeply felt and understood, The minute that it’s sinking.
-
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
-
Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.
-
The obvious is always least understood.
-
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
-
But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
-
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.
-
I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.
-
My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'
-
Tilting the head to the side is a submission signal because it exposes the throat and neck and makes the person look smaller and less threatening. Its probable origin is in the baby resting its head on its parent's shoulder or chest, and the submissive, nonthreatening meaning it conveys seems to be unconsciously understood by most people, especially women.
-
Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.
-
To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.
-
The needs of the business sector must be understood.
-
If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.
-
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
-
In the beginning, I want to say something about human greatness. Some time ago, I was reading texts of Kungtse. When I read these texts, I understood something about human greatness. What I understood from his writings was: What is greatest in human beings is what makes them equal to everybody else. Everything else that deviates higher or lower from what is common to all human beings makes us less. If we know this, we can develop a deep respect for every human being.
-
Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.
-
Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.
-
The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
-
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
-
She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.
-
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
-
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
