Famous quotes containing the word understood:
“Ive never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. Its probably because they have forgotten their own.”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
“Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest looking persons I ever see; except one, and that was uncle Silas, when he come in, and they told it all to him. It kind of made him drunk, as you may say, and he didnt know nothing at all the rest of the day, and preached a prayer meeting sermon that night that give him a rattling ruputation, because the oldest man in the world couldnt a understood it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“U.S. international and security policy ... has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call the Fifth Freedom, understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)