Understood Quotes

2381 Understood quotes by 1698 unique authors

No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see… — Glen Cook
I always thought fainting showed an inherent weakness of character, but I understood it now. It was an act of self-preservation. Confronted by emotion too… — Karen Marie Moning
Don't you see what's happened? You wanted to be in love again. To feel that feeling where a man you hardly know gazes into your… — Nancy Horan
To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the… — Bertrand Russell
Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was… — Margaret Mitchell
People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined… — Atul Gawande
It is a luxury to be understood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual… — Rita Mae Brown
In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no matter how strongly… — Neal Shusterman
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction… — Glen Duncan
And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to… — Kristin Cashore
..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. — Ayn Rand
The trouble with words is that they give us the illusory sense that we are making ourselves understood as well as understanding what others are… — Paulo Coelho
Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it… — Tammara Webber
He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to… — Joe Hill
If a person cast no shadow at all, he couldn't be alive. His existence became meaningless.Execrating Apophis by destroying his shadow would cut his connection… — Rick Riordan
One day" came. Because finally I understood. — Melina Marchetta
So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more. — Sarah Dessen
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days.… — Mary Zimmerman
Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was… — Robert Jordan
He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd… — David Levithan
It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head. — Richelle Mead
When I saw Fäolin fall, I understood then that the true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care… — Christopher Paolini

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