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Steig Larsson quote: "I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo..."
I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand? Steig Larsson
No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul. Edgar Allan Poe
You were spying on us?" "It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death." "He wasn't," Ronnie assured him. "I'm just saying how it looked." She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older. Nicholas Sparks
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all. Thomas Merton
How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his need for periodic isolation and regularly dragged him back to earth mid-soak by hammering on the locked door in search of bleach or dental floss. Mark Haddon
My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become. Anne Rice
It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives. Francis Bacon
I cannot assume you will understand me. It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear. Some story we must have. Stray words on crumpled paper. A weak signal into the outer space of each other. The probability of seperate worlds meeting is very small. The lure is immense. We send starships. We fall in love Jeanette Winterson
Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully & slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, & I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter... John Grisham
Max Lucado quote: "Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he..."
Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does. Max Lucado
Socrates quote: "The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without..."
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion. Socrates
William Congreve quote: "Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we..."
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand William Congreve
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this,... Lao Tzu
Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!"Can't we do anything about it?"No!"Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly. Terry Prachett
At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was only glad that people were standing near him and only wished that they would help him and bring him back to life, which seemed to him so beautiful now that he had today learned to understand it so differently. Leo Tolstoy

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