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I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just… — Ilona Andrews
I was overwhelmed. He understood me so well, how nervous I was about making this commitment, how frightening it was for me to become a… — Kiera Cass
This person had arrived, he had illuminated her, he had ensorcelled her with notions of miracle and beauty, he had both understood and misunderstood her,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm going to take off your gag.And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as… — Holly Black
He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear… — Rick Riordan
Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words… — Ann Aguirre
My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the… — Sherman Alexie
Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the… — Booker T. Washington
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. — Jenny Shipley
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. — Mark Twain
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to… — Ron Paul
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed,… — John Maynard Keynes
If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it… — Jonathan Swift
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. — Paul Eldridge
Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:… — Jacques Barzun
If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all. — Marvin Minsky
I exclusively attended public school... And I can honestly say that on the day of my graduation, if you had given me a pop quiz… — Unknown Author
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood. — James Branch Cabell
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which… — Leo Tolstoy
I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three… — Brooke Shields
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! — Miles Davis
"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large… — Charles de Lint
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women. — Mikhail Gorbachev

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