Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it;… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but… — Álvaro Mutis Copy Share Image
Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean --… — Arthur B. Robinson Copy Share Image
So what Jesus taught must be understood from the deepest level and that is one of the best sayings to show that… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking.… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out. — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I always supported gay issues, but I never understood transgender issues. But after I heard Bruce Jenner speak so honestly, so sincerely,… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
We all have rosy memories of a simpler, happy time- a time of homemade apple pie and gingham curtains, a time when… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
I've never understood the use of vulgar language, but the definition of 'risque' is open to interpretation. I suppose I did many… — Carol Channing Copy Share Image
