Understood Quotes

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He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. — Frank Herbert
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. — Graham Greene
His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that… — Etgar Keret
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being… — James Joyce
--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others — Philip Roth
the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What… — George MacDonald
Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins. — Jose Saramago
It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 never understood people who don't have bookshelves. — George Plimpton
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.… — Arundhati Roy
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. — Marcus Sedgwick
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us… — Richard Wright
Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of… — Jeanette Winterson
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Soren Kierkegaard
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov
The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear.… — Joe Hill

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