Understandable Quotes
154 quotes by 146 authors
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I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.
— George A. Romero
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Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that…
— Francis Schaeffer
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I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable…
— Jane Smiley
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I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get…
— Yakov Smirnoff
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
— Tabitha Soren
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The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at…
— David Suzuki
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We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic…
— Anne Frank
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Not really hungry." "She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty."…
— Karen Chance
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All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the…
— Marya Hornbacher
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A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She…
— Anna Godbersen
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The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
— William Golding
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Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A…
— Carl Sagan
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It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and women live in different worlds...at core, men are afraid…
— Gavin de Becker
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She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --" "He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over…
— Cassandra Clare
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He reclined on a delightfully cushioned lounge in the sprawling ranch Paris had rented. In Dallas, Texas, of all places. Promiscuity had decked himself out,…
— Gena Showalter
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Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body…
— Tad Williams
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