Comprehension Quote by Ouida Download Open image “Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda” — Ouida ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comprehension Desire Weakness
“Wanda's sole interests are getting high and getting laid. I can't picture her wasting valuable stoner hours on murder.” — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
“There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.” — Sofía Navarro Copy Share Image
“There is no end to the cruelty of men threatened by strong women." - Mr. Nancy” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women… — Ouida Copy Share Image
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. — Ouida Copy Share Image
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models… — Alexander Tsiaras Copy Share Image
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
