Understood Quotes

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And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted… — William Goldman
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women… — Julian Barnes
Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. — Willa Cather
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.… — Barack Obama
Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be… — James A. Baldwin
People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave… — Terry Pratchett
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was… — Cormac McCarthy
Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white,… — Melissa de la Cruz
Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki,… — Neil Gaiman
But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in… — Jeffrey Eugenides
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was.… — Anton Chekhov
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read… — Karen Marie Moning
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And… — Ana Castillo
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it… — Charlotte Gray
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us… — Khalil Gibran
She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else. — Jeffrey Eugenides
And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life. — Richard Yates
In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We… — Marianne Williamson
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the… — William Butler Yeats
[May] understood people and she let them be whatever way they needed to be. She had faith in every single person she ever met, and… — Cynthia Rylant

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