Understood Quotes

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We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this… — Christopher Hitchens
She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the… — Gregory Maguire
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? — Nicole Krauss
After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love… — Robert Hass
We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth — Patrick O'Brian
Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way. — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. — Robert Conquest
Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong --… — Edward Abbey
I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she… — Nicole Krauss
I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm… — Annie Proulx
I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would. — Langston Hughes
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed… — Steve Martin
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible… — Leo Tolstoy
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped. — Evelyn Underhill
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. — George Orwell
No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese. — Patrick O'Brian
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit… — Thomas Bernhard
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and… — Arthur Golden
Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man.… — Pablo Casals
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed… — Octave Mirbeau

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