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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
Thomas Hobbes

Power, Long, Able

Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
Alfred North Whitehead

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'
Harlan Coben

Put, Last, Idea

I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.
Fred Durst

Life, Time, Father

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
Martha Beck

Understand, Creativity, Others

My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky

Music, Best, Children

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Christopher Lasch

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
Christopher Lasch

News, Events, Propaganda

I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.
Sylvester Stallone

Work, Time, Envy

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
James Buchan

History, Year, Times

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
Uma Thurman

Love, Heart, Thought

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
Wole Soyinka

Morning, Writing, Learned

In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.
Channing Tatum

Love, Character, Focus

No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.
Bruce Springsteen

Work, Values, Felt

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.
Gene Tierney

Young, Serious, Dream

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
Gene Tierney

Hollywood, Departure, Cracking

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.
will.i.am

Music, Place, Started

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
Werner Heisenberg

Science, Moving, Feeling

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret Atwood

Time, Freedom, Joy

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

Message, Clearly, Warning

You want to be understood by the sophisticated few but you also have to be more loud somehow, otherwise your message doesn't go through.
Miuccia Prada

Through, Few, Message

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.
Charles Bronson

Pain, Mind, Someone

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?
George Saunders

Truth, Real, Decisions

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
Hugh Leonard

Life, Time, Hate

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Life, Love, Here

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.
Murray Gell-Mann

Someone, Talk, Whatever

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
Francois Hollande

Attitude, Together, Reason

Love can be understood only 'from the inside,' as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
Robert C. Solomon

Love, Someone, Lives

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Jean Anouilh

Genius, Himself, Knows

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
Elia Kazan

Future, True, Communism

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