Understood Quotes

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Are you having performance issues?” I asked in surprise. “Bite your tongue,” Vlad said, with a snort. “I was seeing if Dermot understood sign language,… — Jeaniene Frost
I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of… — Nicholas Sparks
Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen… — Therese of Lisieux
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be… — Moderata Fonte
If cats understood technology and had opposable thumbs, they'd rule the world. — P. C. Cast
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world… — Terence McKenna
She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you. — Jodi Picoult
She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing… — Baroness Orczy
You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one… — Ron Currie Jr.
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact… — Kazuo Ishiguro
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else. — Brad Meltzer
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were… — Edwidge Danticat
I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use? — Richard Paul Evans
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for… — Anne Lamott
She looked around herself, disoriented, like she’d forgotten we were at lunch. Like she’d forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not alone… — Stephenie Meyer
who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his… — C.S. Lewis
In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. — Lisa See
He understood that she needed some time to get used to "them." He didn't. He knew exactly what was happening, and he didn't need another… — Cindy Gerard
I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I… — Portia de Rossi
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like… — Paulo Coelho
The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children. — Mahatma Gandhi
He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need… — Cinda Williams Chima

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