Understood Quotes

2381 Understood quotes by 1698 unique authors

To be understood is to prostitute oneself — Fernando Pessoa
we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others — Oscar Wilde
Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was… — Ayn Rand
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you… — Ai Yazawa
What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute… — Richelle Mead
Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief… — Nora Roberts
Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus. — Tom Wolfe
I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about… — Wendell Berry
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared… — Donald Miller
Why don’t people’s hearts tell them to continue following their dreams?” the boy asked the alchemist. “Because that’s what makes a heart suffer most, and… — Paulo Coelho
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and… — Tom Clancy
a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only… — Tom Wolfe
It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was… — Justin Cronin
It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who… — Paul Tournier
And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait… — Philip Pullman
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

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