Understood Quotes
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A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way.
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Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
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My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.
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Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
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I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
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All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
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I'm a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.
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'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
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I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.
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When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right.
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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.
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The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
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People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.
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Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
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Most of my friends in Korea told me it was social suicide. I knew it wasn't going to be easy and I understood the risks going into it, but I just wanted to be authentic and be open from the get-go.
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So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
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By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.
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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.
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The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
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My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.
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I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break
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I understood that I had arrived there full of pride and realized that—in good faith, certainly, with affection—I had made that whole journey mainly to show her what she had lost and what I had won. But she had known from the moment I appeared, and now, risking tensions with her workmates, and fines, she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.
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Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, and hauling around a giant stomach, and some women, for reasons probably understood by Darwin, love it.
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I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.
