Understood Quotes

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Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. — Charles Dickens
...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people. — Kate Morton
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody… — Thomas Sowell
The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him.… — Holly Black
My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in… — Sarah Dessen
When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant. — Paul Cornell
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her. — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant… — Rick Yancey
Are you having performance issues?â€ I asked in surprise. â€œBite your tongue,â€ Vlad said, with a snort. â€œI was seeing if Dermot understood sign language,… — Jeaniene Frost
I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of… — Nicholas Sparks
Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen… — Therese of Lisieux
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be… — Moderata Fonte
If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world. — P. C. Cast
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world… — Terence McKenna
She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you. — Jodi Picoult

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