Quotes of: Understood Keyword

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

Ethel Waters

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

The History of Love

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Roman Jakobson

Whatever you get out of poetry - take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood.

Sanober Khan

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

Tom Stoppard

We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…” Lone Walk From Panther Creek.

Kat Kaelin

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

Lorna Luft

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

Lykke Li

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

Lupita Nyong'o

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Laurence Sterne

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Lionel Trilling

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

Mahatma Gandhi

Self awareness is only powerful when knowledge is understood and applied, only then can it manifest into true wisdom!

Martin R. Lemieux

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

Ruth Park

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

Richard Selzer

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.

Michael J. Fox

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

Robert Dallek

I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

Nolan Bushnell

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Hank Aaron

As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

Laura Esquivel