Understood Why Quotes

75 quotes by 69 authors

For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life… — Albert Camus
I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in… — Silas House
....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard… — Jane Goodall
Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one,… — Janet Fitch
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
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
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
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
I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use? — Richard Paul Evans
I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters… — Jodi Picoult
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood… — Scott Westerfeld
I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already… — Craig Silvey
I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine. — Franny Billingsley
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
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
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
Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task. — John Flanagan
I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out. — Tonya Hurley
I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very… — Banksy
I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and… — Kerry King

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