#understood

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#liberty #power #regulation #than #understood

They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood. ↗

— Janet Frame

#accepted #could #deciding #divisions #easy

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

— Martin Heidegger

#calculation #commonly #distance #measured #result

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

— Jacqueline Bisset

#important #represents #tool #understood #very

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

— Bjork

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President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#counterparts #country #day #equal #equal pay

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood. ↗

— Tony Blair

#care #feel #know #lives #misunderstood

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even

I'm so misunderstood! ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#misunderstood

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

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