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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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne 
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Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
Cassandra Wilson
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One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
Tom Skerritt
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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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I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
Ian Mckellen
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Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
Kenneth Koch
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I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
Ethel Waters
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I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.
Mary Cheney
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I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
Asa Gray
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I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
Van Morrison
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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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