Understood Quotes

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Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I… — Ava Gardner
I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. "Thank you for… — Carrie Vaughn
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book. — Eva Ibbotson
â€¦I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for… — Harold Bell Wright
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own… — Chris Cleave
He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a… — Susanna Clarke
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. — Jose Rizal
There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to… — Richard P. Feynman
I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them. — Laurie Halse Anderson
When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another.… — Graham Greene
We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our… — Gayle Forman
You made peace,â€ said the buffalo man. â€œYou took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were hereâ€”and the people… — Neil Gaiman
A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one… — Khaled Hosseini
It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it. — Patricia Briggs
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by… — Doris Lessing
In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship… — Luke Davies
Finally, he knew the kind of loving that made two one and understood Jane was his world. His ocean, his country, his sun, his rain,… — Karen Marie Moning
She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building… — David Sedaris
I now understood the secret of music and knew what makes it so infinitely superior to all the other arts: its incorporeality. Once it has… — Walter Moers
You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before — Italo Calvino

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