Quotes of: Understood Keyword

I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards.

The Dovekeepers

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

The Dovekeepers

Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom.

Existential Psychology East-West

I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

People say: 'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.

A Guide for the Perplexed

They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.

Howards End

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

Both Flesh and Not: Essays

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Edward Sapir

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

Grover Norquist

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

Daniel Radcliffe

Humanity expects there to be vast conspiracies, even if they will not admit it in polite company. It is understood shadowy conspirators must thereby be somewhere.

Artificial Gods

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Anthem

May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?

Anthem

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

Angel on the Square

Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

...he, of all people, understood all about these hidden mainsprings in the twisted gadgetry of the soul.

Harvard Square

[Bobby Tom] finally understood Gracie's function in his life. She was God's joke on him.

Heaven, Texas

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

The Inner Circle

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

The Sufis

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

The Sociological Imagination