Understood Quotes
When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.
If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.
It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.
Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.
I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
There are no small problems. Problems that appear small are large problems that are not understood
I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of citizenship, to be vaunted, there is little civilian life left.
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.
Jesus not only understood Himself to be the promised Messiah, He also says and does things throughout the Gospels that make it clear He understood Himself to be God incarnate.