Understandable Quotes
154 quotes by 146 authors
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Most people don't cry when they're upset or frightened, but rather when they're frustrated. Your frustration is understandable. You've been through a most trying time."…
— Cassandra Clare
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Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year.…
— David Levithan
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Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is…
— Tan Twan Eng
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All the "not readies," all the "I need time," are understandable, but only for a short while. The truth is that there is never a…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning to…
— Victor J. Stenger
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..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.
— Nirmala Srivastava
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I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a…
— Tupac Shakur
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You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to…
— Lowell Bergman
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When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
— Annabelle Selldorf
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As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on…
— Douglas Coupland
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When you play with Kobe Bryant, the ball is gonna be with him most of the time, which is understandable.
— Steve Nash
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The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling,…
— Paul Hawken
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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white…
— Jim Webb
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The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the…
— Laurie Graham
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I talked to some vets in L.A. about what they go through and do they think about their experiences a lot. I got a wide…
— Austin Stowell
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but…
— Mitch Kapor
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It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt…
— Alfred Einstein
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It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty.
— Dick Thornburgh
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The Icesave matter is complex and it is understandable that the issue has been oversimplified by many. Unfortunately some of the basic facts of the…
— Johanna Siguroardottir
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