They Understood Quotes

51 They Understood quotes by 46 unique authors

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating… — Wystan Hugh Auden
This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good… — William J. Clinton
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful,… — Joshua Foer
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors… — Jeffrey Eugenides
We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think… — Ernest Hemingway
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and… — Tom Clancy
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world… — Terence McKenna
You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one… — Ron Currie Jr.
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 looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. "Thank you for… — Carrie Vaughn
A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in… — Heather Brewer
And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. — John Flanagan
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both… — Arundhati Roy
He told me that once, in the war, he’d come upon a German soldier in the grass with his insides falling out; he was just… — Libba Bray
Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped hands.… — Baroness Orczy
One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not… — Monica Crowley
I used the dictionary very minimally and I just wrote how I speak. And I speak very hateful manner usually. I constantly did that because… — Kerry King
There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire… — Colin Mochrie
They understood why I left ER. It wasn't just about a guy. — Sherry Stringfield
We really clicked with the label and they understood what we wanted to do as a band. They gave us a lot of freedom to… — Ryan Ross
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did. — Unknown Author
When I was 12, I realized I was very uncomfortable having my parents on set. So I told them that, and they understood. — Ellen Page

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