“He wouldn't have understood if I'd told him why I spend my time with criminals. He didn't know that I belonged with… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Plutocrats worldwide have readily understood the advantages of evading the burdens of the nation-state. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Going to college was really affirming for me, meeting other people like me, other mixed people who had mixed life experience. And… — Myha'la Copy Share Image
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society… — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
I never understood exactly why people get engaged--The only time I ever did the most disastrous things happened--but I feel that there's… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as… — David Crane Copy Share Image
The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It absolutely helped - to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts,' I had to see the whole story from his… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem… — William Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba, in 1870, did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land, but it is to… — Louis Riel Copy Share Image
And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood.… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
