I Understand Quotes

950 I Understand quotes by 774 unique authors

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. — George Bernard Shaw
And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something… — Libba Bray
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A… — Lloyd Alexander
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. — Flann O'Brien
It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.'… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I… — Peter Kropotkin
Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I… — Orson Scott Card
Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never… — Willa Cather
Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in… — Alfred de Vigny
Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed… — Daniel Keyes
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just… — Barbara Kingsolver
You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then, that… — J M Coetzee
Nothing in the church makes people in the church more angry than grace. It's ironic: we stumble into a party we weren't invited to and… — Mike Yaconelli
And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to… — Meg Cabot
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this… — Wendell Berry
Very well. I understand. Just ... shut up! — Eoin Colfer
Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the… — Terry Eagleton
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my… — Elizabeth Kostova
He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I… — Charlotte Bronte
I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know… — Jodi Picoult

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