Desire Quote by Trevanian Download Open image “We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.” — Trevanian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Enjoy Obvious Understood
I'm someone who likes to acknowledge the obvious and not feel like we must do or say things because it's what we're supposed to… — Nick Viall Copy Share Image
It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious;… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you. — Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
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Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps,… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
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Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life. — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.” — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to.” — Trevanian Copy Share Image
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“Short first pregnancies do not occasion criticism in our valley, for it is widely known that the good Lord often makes first pregnancies mercifully… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
