Understood Quotes

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

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

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

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

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

I've honestly never understood where the problem lies within this debate, ... Science simply explains the work of God. For those who can put faith in God without question, (creationism) is for them. For those that need physical proof, evolution works for them.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

I am very happy that people have understood our desire to develop this design beyond the ideas we first presented. Now we have taken everything a step further, in order to connect this building to the city around it.

The teachers? union fully understood our budget. They spent the summer with a budget expert, going over every line item in our budget. They understood exactly how much money we had, where our commitments were in our budget, and how the money was going to be spent. It was unrelated. The loan was a way that teachers could contribute to the district?s financial improvement, without having to take a permanent pay cut. We would never take a loan from our teachers to give it to another union. That is totally ridiculous.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.

I would love to have a bike path. But my feeling is that the town may not have understood how small these properties are.

Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking; but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart.

It was a catastrophe, of course. We had no clients, no nothing. Nobody understood the idea of doing reproductions.

They understood the theology of their bodies, ... The call to love as God loves is stamped right into our very bodies.

There was no bitterness; he understood what had happened, ... quiet faith that things would turn out all right.

She rolled her eyes. But she understood.

It is a very clever merger and we hope it will go on. The prime minister has understood that he had to move. It shows that he understands the world in a very clever way.

We got into dealing because no one understood what we were looking for. We were interested in letters and photos relating to opera stars ? we graduated to materials relating to opera, then to musical scores and eventually into working notes and drafts, as well as the performing arts in general.

We were in constant communication with them throughout the semester. We wanted to make it clear that we understood that they were visiting students, and we were here to aid the institutions in New Orleans that were closed.