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“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

“How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?”

Art Age Understanding Progress Understood Opposites Barbarians

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.”

Knows Age Loses Principles Focus Groups Willing Understood Conviction Historian Approval Popularity Contests Polls Posterity Deserving Adviser True Meaning John Kennedy Focus Groups

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Divine things are too deep to be expressed by common words. The heavenly teachings are expressed in parable in order to be understood and preserved for ages to come. When the spiritually minded dive deeply into the ocean of their meaning they bring to the surface the pearls of their inner significance. There is no greater pleasure than to study God’s Word with a spiritual mind.”

Mind Age Spiritual Order Pleasure Common Study Greater Teaching Divine Ocean Understood Surface Heavenly Significance Pearls Parables Too Deep

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.”

Age Spirit Water Secret Cold Understood

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.”

Source: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

“An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.”

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.”

Trying Age Causes Understanding Return Understood

Author:Leonora Carrington

“There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.”

Said Reason Age Purpose Next Born Generations Reader Understood Shadow Crosses Casts Giants Towers Great Writers Irrelevance

Author:Caroline Gordon

“One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.”

Ifs Whole Age Song History Understood

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Five o'clock tea" is a phrase our "rude forefathers," even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completelyis it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for "all the ills that flesh is heir to," the glorious Magna Charta.”

Mind Age Lasts Five Generations Understood Universal Institutions Flesh Tea Clock Phrases Glorious March Application Rude Rapids Rivals Risen Heirs Forefathers

Author:Lewis Carroll

“I think that songwriting is understood from an early age that was the priority to figure out first. Learn to write a good song, and then figure out who you are as an artist because, once you know how to write a good song, you can dress it in any kind of clothing.”

Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Kind Age Artist Song Know How Figures Understood Dresses Who You Are Priorities Songwriting Clothings

Author:Lights

“I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.”

Age School Christian Heard Groups Youth Mines Understood High School Raised Accepted Invited

Author:Francis Chan

“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.”

“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Age Evil Christ Church Moral Conditions Solutions Understood Add Missions Radical Adam Fading Moral Strength

Book:Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Source: Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

“When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.”

People Firsts Kids Age Wanted Felt Understood First Time Los Angeles Freak Wacky

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.”

Different Kids Age Order Culture Sports Parent Water Half Activity Understood Importance Fortunate Exposing Skis Skiing Different Cultures

Author:Benoit Lecomte

“When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.”

Problem Age School Subjects Understood My Favorite Math Enjoyed Code Problem Solving Algebra Calculus Favorite Subject

Author:Chris Bosh

“Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.”

“The phrase 'Sense of the Earth' should be understood to mean the passionate concern for our common destiny which draws the thinking part of life ever further onward. The only truly natural and real human unity is the spirit of the Earth. . . .The sense of Earth is the irresistable pressure which will come at the right moment to unite them (humankind) in a common passion.The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.”

“The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.”

People Trying Age Stuff Materials Involved Understood Concepts Adults Critics Satire

Author:Andy Kaufman

“I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Philosophy Age Young Principles Figures College Illusion Understood Mathematics Math Physics Silly Enjoyed Young Age Retrospect

Author:Erez Lieberman Aiden

“I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of first person experience. I'd spent a lot of time from 1995-1998 focusing almost exclusively on poetry, and it's an incredibly difficult form in which to achieve a sustained comic tone unless you're Alexander Pope.”

Firsts Persons Age Form Young Difficult Comedy Fans Achieve Understood Comic Tone Pope Young Age First Person Immediacy

Author:Kevin Keck

“There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.”

Book Age Young Reading House Activity Understood Young Age

Author:Lisa Lucas

“I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.”

Feels Real Age Language Understood Mediums Fluidity

Author:Daniel Clowes

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

Love Life Wisdom Age Spiritual Understanding History Positive Inspirational Life Life Philosophy Wise Words Words Of Wisdom Reflection Understood Experience Aging My Favorite Positivity Old Age Moving Forward This Life Live Life Moving On Life Changing Life And Death Thought Provoking Funeral Spiritual Wisdom Life Experience Backwards Living My Life Deep Thought Theologian Life And Love Memorial Reflecting Growing Old Adages Meaningful Life Make You Think Life Death Eulogy Short Life Past Life Just Live New Experiences I Live My Life Past Experiences Future Life Danish Moving Forward In Life Life Is Worth Living You Live And You Learn Grief Loss Fulfilled Life Knowledge And Experience Old Life Just Live Your Life Personal Improvement Inspirational Moving On Live Life Happy Inspirational Inspirational Mourning Knowledge Experience Grief And Loss Inspirational Improve Your Life Age And Experience Endless Journey Walking Backwards Looking Forward To The Future Marching Forward Reflections Of Life

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.”

Stills Important Inspiration Age Young Community Growing Up Growing Mom Understood Tables Cooking My Mom Cooks Birthday Young Age Back And Forth Banter Portuguese

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.”

Age Next Social Becoming Understood Evidence Embrace Phones Posts Privacy Email Invasion Becoming More Phone Calls Unspeakable Texting Invasion Of Privacy

Author:Will Self

“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.”

“But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.”

Ifs World Writing Believe Littles Book Might Age Able Values Black White Consciousness Bears Waste Paper Understood Mark Charm Significance Rainbow Persist Jars Bracelet White Paper

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period.”

Way Book Stories Age Remember Fiction Boys Periods Understood Concepts Drawing Clock Nurse Rhyme Annoyed Rags Nursery Depiction Docks Nursery Rhymes

Author:Terry Pratchett

“The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.”

Years Firsts Wells Age Modern Middle Understood Forgotten Cycles Commerce Reminders Middle Ages Famine Antiquity Modern Times

Author:James Buchan

“Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.”

“Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared”

Source: Casino Royale

“Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and something else too, as if he were standing with her, as if he'd taken her within himself, letting her rest her entire body for a moment on his backbone, her mind in his mind, her heart in the fire of his. The fire of Brigan's heart was astounding. Fire understood, and almost could not believe, that the feeling he was sending her was love.”

Ifs Love Mind Believe Heart Moments Feelings Body Age Names Taken Fire Understood Standing Backbone

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.”

Love Humans Age Young Wish Understanding Human Beings Changed Understood And Love Died Constant Affection Painful Loyalty Pity

Author:Graham Greene

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