Quotes of: Understood Keyword

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The Sufis

I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE POINT OF BEING SAD WHEN I COULD CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY

Second Helpings

Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;

Master of the Senate

I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.

Kerry King

No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

Orville Wright

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.

Roland Barthes

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

Remy de Gourmont

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

Shinya Yamanaka

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

Thomas Boswell

I never understood the point of juicing - I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables - but now I'm a convert.

Thandie Newton

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

Lee Greenwood

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Lennart Meri

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Martha Beck

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did magazines did magazines. That's what was understood.

Naomi Campbell

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Henry A. Kissinger

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

John Perkins

For those of us in the political business, generally, it's been pretty much an unwritten but understood rule that family and children are out of bounds, that you don't attack someone's family.

Michael Nutter

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego