Understood Quotes
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle -
When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.
Judith Butler
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Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.
Delores Phillips -
I think that anybody who thinks science is going to explain everything in biological systems, or in physical cosmology, et cetera, is actually mistaken, because I think within science - if correctly understood - those claims are not being made.
George Coyne -
I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.
Betty Eadie -
Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.
Ava Gardner -
I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.
Errol Flynn -
I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.
Dan Bern
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It was like she understood something about me that she'd never quite understood before. I always felt that when she looked at me, she was trying to find me, trying to find out who I was. But it seemed at that moment that she saw me, that she knew me. But that confused me.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
Kathleen Raine -
Years ago I read an interview with Paula Fox in which she said that in writing, truth is just as important as story. Reading that interview was the first time I really understood that there's no point in trying to impress people with my cleverness when I can just try to write honestly about what matters most to me.
Molly Antopol -
If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
Betty Eadie -
I never understood the point of doing a cover a song and having it sound exactly like the original.
John Dolmayan System Of A Down -
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.
Albert Camus
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I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.
Ben Lerner -
It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.
Rebecca Hall -
I always thought I had crooked eyebrows and crooked teeth. That's why I never understood why people called me a beauty.
Lauren Bacall -
I was trying to explain to myself why I was so happy. I hadn't ever felt this happy. I finally understood something about life and its inexplicable logic. I'd wanted to be certain of everything, and life was never going to give me any certitude. I thought of Fito, who always lived in hope when life had offered him no hope. Certitude was a luxury he had never been able to afford. All he'd ever had was a heart incapable of despair.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.
Cedric Benson
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When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
Moliere -
Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy!
Alex Toth -
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
Ernst Haas