I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to… — Silas House Copy Share Image
I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood - what then?, I shall pass through… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball,… — Ryan Howard Copy Share Image
Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
"Someone": I understood that this was a character who in her own life her voice hadn't much been heard and in literature… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
There's often times a big difference between what you actually thought/felt in a situation and what you think you thought/felt. You have… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use.… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
I've known him since 1954 and I've never taken Mujib Rahiman seriously - I understood from the very first moment that there… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers were truly some of the most gifted thinkers in history. They understood that power could be used to corrupt. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
I think I just really understand what it is to feel like you don't fit in, within your society, within your world,… — Anya Taylor-Joy Copy Share Image
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have been described as the grandfather of climate change. In fact, I am just a grandfather and I do not want… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood… — Candy Chang Copy Share Image
By the time I came to the States, I really understood how a magazine works. I came to 'Vogue' as creative director,… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand -… — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood… — Kerry King Copy Share Image
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living. — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
When President Clinton opened NATO's doors in 1994, some predicted a crisis with Russia. That did not occur, mainly because the Kremlin… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image