I Understood Quotes

249 quotes by 219 authors

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. — Gene Tierney
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed… — Steve Martin
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and… — Arthur Golden
But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at… — C.S. Lewis
--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others — Philip Roth
My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time. — Ishmael Beah
I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to… — Sarah Dessen
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds… — Sue Townsend
It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a… — Betty Smith
People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the… — Alice Hoffman
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he… — Jon Krakauer
She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a… — Banana Yoshimoto
The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of… — Shel Silverstein
He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much… — Dodie Smith
Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help… — James Patterson
But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. — Willa Cather

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