Understandable Quotes (page 144)

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• heart
• understanding
• other

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. Charles Dickens

• choose
• reality
• fear

The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment. Chris Colfer

• savage
• understanding
• willed

IF YOU COME NEAR THIS BOAT, I WILL CUT OFF HIS HEAD, D'YOU UNDERSTAND, SAVAGES? Dave Barry

• french
• understanding
• did

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French. I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Mark Twain

• understanding
• she
• said

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither. Henry James

• thinking
• understanding
• saying

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it. Lewis Carroll

• life
• understanding
• week

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries. Stephenie Meyer

• study
• play
• feeling

The other guys did not feel the need to understand themselves that in me was so compelling: they could carry out their personality with the greatest naturalness, while I had to play a part, and this required a considerable acumen and study Yukio Mishima

• nature
• goals
• understanding

Once that is clearly understood, I think that each of us can stay quietly in the state in which nature has placed him. since the middle station allotted to us is always far from the extremes, what does it matter if someone else has a slightly better understanding of things? If he has, and if he takes them a little further, is he not still infinitely remote from the goal? Is not our span of life equally infinitesimal in eternity, even if it is extended by ten years? In the perspective of... Blaise Pascal

• life
• understanding
• people

For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• understanding
• die
• dies

— you don’t understand — there are things worth dying for! J. K. Rowling

• help
• understanding
• innocent

if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!' and Mrs. Jo's eyes grew absent, as if she was looking at a new and charming state of society in which people lived as happily and innocently as her flock at Plumfield. Louisa May Alcott

• him
• understanding
• procured

Don't you understand? I was PROCURING for him. Tennessee Williams

• fear
• understanding
• understands

We all fear what we do not understand. Dan Brown

• understanding
• creativity
• emotional

Fear can be one of the most destructive emotions. It is, of course, also very important, in that fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgement of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives. Helen Mirren