Understood Quotes
2381 quotes by 1698 authors
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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
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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
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I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
— Graham Greene
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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
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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
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--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others
— Philip Roth
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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
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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
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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
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
— Jose Saramago
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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
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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
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I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
— George Plimpton
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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
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A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
— Marcus Sedgwick
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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
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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
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I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
— Isaac Asimov
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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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