Understood Quotes

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.