Understood Quotes

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While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphaelâ€™s Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal heâ€™d once been, the one who had loved a… — Nalini Singh
A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't. — Kate Morton
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one… — Paulo Coelho
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the… — Tristan Tzara
Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.'… — Derek Landy
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has… — Anton Chekhov
And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve... I never realized, I never understood. It… — Barry Lyga
In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the… — Francis Schaeffer
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world. — George R. R. Martin
As he was about to leave, she said, "Murtagh." He paused and turned to regard her. She hesitated for a moment, then mustered her courage… — Christopher Paolini
As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if… — Leonard Cohen
Mitchell had answered that, as far as he understood them, mystical experiences were significant only to the extent that they changed a person's conception of… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity… — Alfred North Whitehead
I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to… — Jodi Picoult
The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard
A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together,… — Emile M. Cioran
I never really understood the word â€˜lonelinessâ€™. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and… — Bjork

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