Top Understood Quotes
Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein
In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
Michael Behe
Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
John Hench
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Janet Frame 
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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.
Hugh Leonard 
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I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from.
Kerry King
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron
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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
Murray Kempton
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They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
Janet Frame
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
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It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
Joan Van Ark
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Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.
Vito Fossella
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Popular Understood Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonFrancois de La RochefoucauldHenry David ThoreauOscar WildeMohandas GandhiLucius Annaeus Seneca VoltaireAlbert CamusRobert Louis StevensonLyndon B. JohnsonElbert HubbardHenry MillerKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelMarilyn vos SavantErnest Hemingway
Virginia WoolfCharles BaudelaireGeorg C. LichtenbergDonald RumsfeldJames MadisonHelen KellerJonathan SwiftSigmund FreudElia KazanGene TierneyT. S. EliotHedy LamarrJames ThurberWalt DisneySoren Kierkegaard
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