We Understand Quotes

395 quotes by 330 authors

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one… — Barack Obama
In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We… — Marianne Williamson
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history,… — Toni Morrison
Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any… — Elizabeth Gilbert
We understand â€¦ that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we… — Orson Scott Card
She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little… — Daphne du Maurier
It is by love alone that we understand anything — James Stephens
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it… — Jorge Luis Borges
Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She… — Lydia Davis
Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid… — Paulo Coelho
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least. — C.S. Lewis
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding. — Elias Canetti
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not… — R. Scott Bakker
The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it. — Libba Bray
The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once… — Francis Schaeffer
We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were. — John Quincy Adams
Our father was a great warrior. Our mother is proud and strong. They shared only one flaw: that their only loyalty was to themselves above… — Erin Hunter
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey

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