Quotes of: Understood Keyword

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Edward Dahlberg

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

Andre Rieu

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

I've never understood why you would turn down a great role.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

Elia Kazan

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

Judd Apatow

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Igor Stravinsky

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Elie Wiesel

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

C. Day Lewis

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

Geoff Mulgan

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

Gene Tierney

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

Clara Hughes

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

Jean Gabin

I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.

Therese of Lisieux

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Life

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