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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.
I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.
I think, for a long time, I didn't have people who understood where I was coming from. They were giving me advice on what would be good for them.
While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.
Winning the European Championship was a great thing for me, and I understood what it was to win a major trophy and what I had been missing.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
I did have to turn down things in the past, which I was upset about sometimes, but I understood I was part of 'Strictly Come Dancing.'
Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.
Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.
Zerbrowski said, "I only ever understood one woman, and she was kind enough to marry me so I didn't have to decipher anyone else.
Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.
At times it felt as if no one in Government was taking ownership of how COVID-19 directives would be perceived, interpreted and understood on the ground.
--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others
Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger.
My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.
After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.
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.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
When I arrived the players were talented, but did not obey the rules... Once they understood what they needed to, they could express themselves.
As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.
I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.
A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.
A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take
[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.
This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.
Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.
I've got a lot of affection for the people at River and I think it's mutual. The fans quickly understood that I came here hoping to play football.
One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.
I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
I've grown in maturity because I understood from an intellectual standpoint how serious Covid-19 is and all the effects it was having on our society.
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.
Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood.
Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.
Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a clerk who understood it better than I did.
Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
