#understood

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

— Edward Dahlberg

#liberty #power #regulation #than #understood

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#being #content #deal #dream #dreams

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#could #handle #just #life #my life

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#quite #rich #woman

I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because I think the fans would get more out of it if they understood exactly what I'm saying - exactly where I'm coming from. ↗

— Kerry King

#coming #constantly #dictionary #did #exactly

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#family #father #i #important #james

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#christian #exclusion #favorite #few #god

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#breaks #come #i #makes #more

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#considerations #does #essentially #exist #fact

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#church #churches #down #government #grab