If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to this fading evil age, we have not yet understood the radical condition for which Christ is such a radical solution.
I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.
I never understood actors who could just wait around.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.
She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
Art is an international language, understood by all.
I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.
Creation is great, and cannot be understood.
Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
One day" came. Because finally I understood.
Life can only be understood backwards.
It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.
My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.
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.
