Quotes of: Understood Keyword

We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Dan Simmons

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

Jerry Costello

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

Saint Bernard

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

Jan Brewer

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

Paul Eldridge

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

Jenna Elfman

After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.

Paul Henderson

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

Earl Nightingale

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

Francis Lockier

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

Henry David Thoreau

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

Isabelle Huppert

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

Jean Anouilh

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

Bjork

Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

Henry Adams

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

David Crystal

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Jeffrey Jones

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

Jake Lloyd

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

Albert J. Nock

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

John Ortberg