Understood Quotes

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In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle,… — Richard Matheson
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I… — James Ellroy
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion… — Terry Pratchett
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't… — Randy Pausch
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of… — Dorianne Laux
I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish… — Patrick Rothfuss
I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30) — Milan Kundera
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and… — Wendell Berry
I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away… — Kelley Armstrong
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The… — Masanobu Fukuoka
If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you. — Hunter S. Thompson
Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find… — Paulo Coelho
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at… — Erma Bombeck
Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek… — Stephen Covey
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life… — Albert Camus
When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift. He makes it safe for… — John Gray
No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in… — Silas House
There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon… — Susanna Clarke

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