I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.
Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
One aspect of fast London life I have never understood, for example, is the custom of the gym. Why do people go to gyms?
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
Though doctors understood that they could make mistakes, they generally believed that medicine had the answers, and that it was the patients who were mistaken as to their own gender.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part.
The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting a lot of energy into that, instead of into expressing himself freely and feeling comfortable.
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.
I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.
The drug problem’ cannot be understood without a critical examination of the language and narratives of underpinning the explanatory models invoked to prove that there is a 'drug problem.
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
