Understood Quotes

2381 Understood quotes by 1698 unique authors

What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think… — G.A. Henty
But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at… — C.S. Lewis
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge… — C.S. Lewis
In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever… — Tom Robbins
And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with… — Paulette Jiles
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. — Mignon McLaughlin
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a… — Paulo Coelho
There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve… — Paulo Coelho
I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what… — Robin McKinley
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. — Frank Herbert
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. — Graham Greene
His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that… — Etgar Keret
Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being… — James Joyce
--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others — Philip Roth
the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What… — George MacDonald
Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins. — Jose Saramago
It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time. — Ishmael Beah
I never understood people who don't have bookshelves. — George Plimpton
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him.… — Arundhati Roy
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. — Marcus Sedgwick

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