Understood Quotes - Page 10

Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

Hip-hop has always been chronologically misunderstood.

I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

The immigration system in America today has been misrepresented, misunderstood to mean: "Anybody who wants to come can come. The world is filled with oppression and tyranny, and we are your destination. If you don't want to stay where you are, you're free to come here - and our job and our duty is to accept you no matter what. And the more downtrodden you are, the better. And the poorer you are, the better." It is a total bastardization.

One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.