Best Understood Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.”

“I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.”

Way Wells Enjoy Strange Understood Hungry Evening Amelie

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.”

Feels Writing Moments Stories Reality Courses Memories Boys Degrees Understood Adam Convincing

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.”

Way Different Form Elements Understood Unexpected Repetition Discarded

Author:Graham Nelson

“Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced without the Holy Spirit (v. 6). God is Spirit, and the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom.”

People World Different Spiritual Used Spirit Jesus This World Holy Expectations Understood Invisible Kingdoms Phrases Holy Spirit Kingdom Of God Different Meanings

Author:Tom Harpur

“I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.”

People Faces Reading Understood Magazines Reading Magazines

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.”

Government Moral Authority Understood Moral Authority

Author:Keith O'Brien

“Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.”

Children Jobs Lasts Parent Class Economy Modern Middle Building Understood Our Children Investment Middle Class Grandparent Billionaire Rebuilding Parents And Grandparents

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.”

War Would Be Bird Understood Peculiar Yellow Representation

Author:Kevin Powers

“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.”

“In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.”

Democracy Protect Picks Understood Voters Representatives Reverse Incumbents American Democracy

Author:George Will

“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.”

Children Age Wanted Young Actors Parent Acting Careers Path Fields Mines Understood Indian Supportive Young Age

Author:Archie Panjabi

“My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.”

Looks Wanted Felt Car Understood My Friends Soldier Neighbor Mechanic Restless Fixing

Author:Edward Ruscha

“Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.”

Done Understood Court

Author:Alain Robert

“The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.”

Way Moments One Thing Research Understood Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.”

Thinking Humans Kind Use Mother Human Beings Mistake Understood All Kinds Labels

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.”

Trying Doors Understood Labels Virgins Bangs

Author:Emeli Sande

“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.”

People Feels Trying Believe Littles Different Wanted Bits Difficult Doors Honest Findings Little Bit Understood Labels Clown Knocking

Author:Emeli Sande

“I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?”

Thinking Knows Real Moments Process Decision Percent Understood Artistic Seats Pants Intuitive Artistic Process

Author:George Saunders

“Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.”

Ifs Would Be Common Understood Backgrounds Italian Heritage Divorced Unthinkable Cultural Heritage Faust

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“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.”

Hard Father Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Understood

Author:Katey Sagal

“If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.”

Ifs Thinking Important Remember Fall Bits Roles Understood Falling In Love Wimps Baddies

Author:Mark Strong

“Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.”

Humans Running Humanity Human Beings Existence Buddhism Understood Encounters Running Away Rationalize

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.”

Mind Mean Self Whole Happiness Universe Buddhism Understood Self Knowledge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS.”

People Understood Climate Climate Change Cancer Deny Aids Smoking Flats Links Denied Hiv

Author:Nicholas Stern

“One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.”

People Humans Has Beens Responsibility Roles Conditions Directors Understood Oneself Relate Human Condition

Author:Tom Skerritt

“Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.”

Knows Voice Audience Color Understood Paint Musical Shade Nuance

Author:Galina Vishnevskaya

“Hubbard set up the Church of Scientology in Hollywood in 1954 for a reason. He understood that celebrity was increasingly a feature of American public life, and celebrities themselves were going to be worshipped as minor deities were in the ancient world. The idea was: if you could get them, think how many people would follow.”

People Ifs Thinking World Ideas Reason Church Understood Hollywood Ancient Features Minors Deities Public Life Scientology Ancient World

Author:Lawrence Wright

“'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.”

Effects Produce Truth Is Understood Relation Productions Statements Operations Regimes Regulation Linked Distribution Procedures Circulation Knowledge And Power

Book:The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”

Ifs Men Existence Understood Adversity Bullying Beauty Of Life

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.”

Thinking Want Should Able Joy Challenges Couple Gay Married Understood Committed Deny

Author:Al Franken

“In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.”

Men Two Lasts Three Media He Man Understood Decades

Author:Anson Mount

“I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that there is a very mysterious element to what works and what doesn't work in the theater. And it's good to know that from the beginning.”

Knows World Worst Directors Elements Understood Theater I Realized Mysterious

Author:Joe Mantello

“Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.”

Want Problem Understood Nine

Author:Matthew Perry

“I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.”

Individual Religious Understood Patterns Familiar Symptoms Neurotic Doubted

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.”

World War Humanity Religious Blood Sea Understood

Author:Irena Sendler

“The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.”

Want Law Source Understood Tea Regulation Veteran Loan Deserving Mortgage

Author:Neal Boortz

“Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short.”

Years Beautiful Life Is Enemy Needed Understood Clouds Nine Thirty Life Is Short Nine Years Life Wisdom

Author:Iimani David

“The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements. In extreme cases, it is sometimes heard that "this kata moves in 8 directions so it is designed for fighting 8 opponents" or some such nonsense.”

Wells Made Sometimes Moving Fighting Mistake Cases Heard Movement Understood Extremes Opponents Nonsense Interpretation

Author:Kenwa Mabuni

“Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.”

Matter Practice Understood No Matter What Discouraged Seekers Enthusiastic

Author:Lee Lozowick

“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.”

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Author:Francois Hollande

“I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the right thing to do. And if I was to run away from what I felt in my soul was the right thing to do, that would make me a coward. I can’t live with that. God wouldn’t be able to put me where I am today, and as far as I’ve come in life, if I was a coward.”

Ifs I Can Soul Running Today Able Felt Understood Scared Honestly My Soul Things To Do Right Thing Coward Running Away Deep Down Backlash

Author:Andrew Hawkins

“Never understood a lot about the world... music is one of the only things that makes any sense.”

World Music Is Understood World Music

Author:Austin Carlile

“The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.”

World Humans Ideas Moments Law Purpose Father Heaven Christ Human Nature This World Demand Understood Work Out Missions Redemption Substitutes Offering Atonement

Author:R. C. Sproul

“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.”

Way Dream Spirit Evil Understanding My Own Deals Understood Responsible Inspired Oneself Aliens Impulse

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“One has not understood until one has forgotten it.”

Understanding Understood Forgotten

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Different Whole Understood Lawyer January

Author:Gordon Gould

“I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.”

People Knows Way Want Firsts Hard States Government Found House Race Issues Understood Chiefs Primaries Ran Our Family Speakers Accused State Government Hard Way

Author:Jim Edgar

“It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.”

Want Film Artist Views Wonder Honest Please Understood Point Of View Viewers Unsure

Author:Jean-Pierre Melville

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