#understood

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us. ↗

— George Grey

#better #bit #countryman #desert #distress

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#calculated #clearly #message #russians #sent

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#commend #him #man #men #only

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#life #sweet #understood #utilized

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#could #educated #education #highly #intelligence

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they? ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#black-and-white #films #frank #frank sinatra #guys

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#defined #force #human #human rights #internalized

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#ever #hated #i #imperfectly #machine

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#cannot #elegant #knowledge #language #literature

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#death #feared #followed #goddess #life