A Quote by Anthony McCarten

Truth is seldom appreciated and never understood, whereas a flattering lie is always appreciated and instantly understood.

Anthony McCarten

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Anthony McCarten
New Zealander - Novelist
Born: 1961

I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood.

Dov Davidoff

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Confucius

At the bottom of things, most people want to be understood and appreciated.

Gautama Buddha

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For a filmmaker, whether the film is liked, understood or appreciated counts as much as the moolah.

Mani Ratnam

I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.

Zendaya

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Thomas Bulfinch

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglass

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

Neal A. Maxwell

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

Stephen Hawking

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

Steven Soderbergh

I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

Ne-Yo

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

Gerard Butler

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.

Samuel Johnson

Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.