Understood Quotes

Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul.

– John O’Donohue

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.

‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly.
That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby. Chapter 7, Gatsby about Daisy. She respresents money – and that is why he is so in love with her.

I don’t think I ever understood Hollywood.

– Gloria Grahame

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

– Henry Miller

Unlike a lot of writers, I don’t have any craving to be understood.

– Jim Harrison

The needs of the business sector must be understood.

– Isaac Herzog

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.

– Apollonius of Tyana

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

– Benjamin Hoff

I’m not friends with any of my exes, and I’ve never understood the appeal.

– Chelsea Handler

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

– Bernard Marcus

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

– Ethel Waters

I never understood the hit-single, quick-success, get-airplay mentality.

– Nikki Sixx

If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.

– Niels Bohr

Israeli suffering has to be understood.

– Mauricio Macri

Europe must be understood and controlled by its citizens.

– Francois Hollande

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.

– Johann Heinrich Lambert

I have never understood the Iowa caucus.

– Larry King

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

– Jacob K. Javits

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

– Yoko Ono

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

– Sidney Poitier

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

– Scott Eastwood