#understood

There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she paid because of how we had to struggle. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#child #did #fully #growing #growing up

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#acquiring #anything #been #evils #greed

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#important #important things #kindness #most #tenderness

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#even #literature #must #only #proofs

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

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Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

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I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood. ↗

— Bjork

#guess #i #quite #rather #than

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#ever #everyone #exact #exact opposite #knew

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#buyers #due #earn #exchange #goods

When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important! ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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