Understood Quotes

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

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.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world.

I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.