625 Understood Quotes for You to Enjoy

We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it's fair punishment, that it's punishment that fits the crime and that is understood and that is anticipated and expected. Janet Reno

Crime Young Punished Punishment Fair Make Sure Got Understood Fits Anticipated Offender Expected Juvenile Serious Violent

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was? Jesmyn Ward

Me Thought Men Free Others Ancestry Tell Immigrants Gulf Gulf Coast About Colonists Free Men Color Proportion Like French Always Understood Tangle American African Native Native Americans Spanish Might Coast Who Many Slaves British

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life. Jodie Foster

Life Most Understood Essential Being Thing

More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself. John Burroughs

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc. John Clare

Am Understood Commas Squad Etc Use Awkward

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. John Ortberg

Soul Chronic Liberated Hurry Unsatisfied Attended Understood Discontent Preoccupation Desires

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development. Kofi Annan

Women Equality More Development Countries Understood Prerequisite

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. Lawrence Clark Powell

Speak Brainy Write Read Understood Heard Grow

The attacks of September 11 were made possible, in part, by the fact that U.S. law enforcement had a bias that 'rich Saudis are safe Arabs.' Al Qaeda understood that bias and relied on it to operate freely in the United States for years, even when the terrorists were engaged in activities that the authorities considered suspicious. Malcolm Nance

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Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. Martin Heidegger

Time Result Sense Distance Between Calculation Understood Commonly Measured Two

From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat. Michael Mina

You Age Cooking Young Kid Spicy Eat Something Never Put Idea Missing Until Balanced Balancing Understood Hamburger Began Young Age Flavor Flavors Really Reason Sweets Who Professionally Fat Ketchup

I've heard the stories. Like, Eric Clapton said he wanted to burn his guitar when he heard Jimi Hendrix play. I never understood that because, when I went and saw a great drummer or heard one, all I wanted to do was practice. Neil Peart

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood. Patti Davis

Me Heart Eyes Words Try Father Past Later Would Hoping He Reach Look Alzheimer Understood His Heard Decades Apology

The first news event I understood as a small child was the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, which President Reagan eloquently mourned from the Oval that evening. Pete Buttigieg

I cannot be understood in three minutes. Sidney Poitier

Three Minutes Understood Cannot

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. Tristan Tzara

Work Art Journalism Understood Any Product

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. Wynton Marsalis

Good History Together National Jazz Our Bad Mutual Only Through Good Times Shared Come Know Period Understood Truly Times Arts The History Of Us Aspirations Lets

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