Never Understood Quotes

167 quotes by 154 authors

• I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody… — Thomas Sowell
• My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in… — Sarah Dessen
• These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were… — Edwidge Danticat
• I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use? — Richard Paul Evans
• I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters… — Jodi Picoult
• I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... — China Mieville
• Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I… — Ava Gardner
• …I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for… — Harold Bell Wright
• You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were here—and the people… — Neil Gaiman
• What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him… — Jonathan Franzen
• I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear… — David Benioff
• This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has… — Anton Chekhov
• And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve... I never realized, I never understood. It… — Barry Lyga
• I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you.… — Connie Brockway
• I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already… — Craig Silvey
• I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine. — Franny Billingsley
• No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see… — Glen Cook
• As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual… — Rita Mae Brown
• Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was… — Robert Jordan
• I've never understood all this fuss people make about the dawn. I've seen a few and they're never as good as the photographs, which have… — Douglas Adams

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