#understood

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#before #caught #detached #get #jim

I have never understood the Iowa caucus. ↗

— Larry King

#i #iowa #never #understood

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#confines #experience #himself #his #leader

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#even #him #loved #makes #more

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ↗

— George William Russell

#easier #forgive #forgive me #found #give me

I was finding it very difficult to find a label that understood what I wanted to do and really believed that people wanted to hear something honest and a little bit different. So, I did feel a bit like a clown. You're knocking on everyone's door trying to get them to believe what you're doing. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#believed #bit #clown #did #different

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#i #i believe #i believe that #indeed #more

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. ↗

— George Savile

#execute #generally #laws #make #persons

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#being #especially #incomprehensible #languages #method

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. ↗

— Hu Shih

#comparison #contact #critically #cultural #elements