In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
I have never quite understood - and this is no doubt my failing - I never quite understood why you would read… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business.… — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
When I think of Xabi, my mind goes back to the first training session he had at Melwood in August 2004. And… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. — Ruth Park Copy Share Image
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
My method is related to an attempt to do something that might be understood by today's world, or that could at least… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
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