Understandable Quotes (page 151)

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• love
• understanding
• ifs

If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. J. K. Rowling

• self
• men
• dark

All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal? a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world? two snake pits. John Gardner

• patience
• understanding
• she

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. Jane Austen

• understanding
• people
• gift

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding John Knowles

• time
• thinking
• understanding

I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.'Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were. Haruki Murakami

• understanding
• soul
• him

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first. David Herbert Lawrence

• time
• understanding
• space

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space. William Joyce

• maturity
• girl
• boys

We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other... Jeffrey Eugenides

• thinking
• faith
• sometimes

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith. Nicholas Sparks

• love
• understanding
• understanding love

And without understanding, could each properly love the other? Anita Brookner

• greatness
• people
• power

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. Harry S. Truman

• understanding
• feeling
• thankful

The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge. David Sedaris

• heart
• understanding
• broken

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. Charles Dickens

• house
• home
• sick

[After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my mother had made that I yearned for. But I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of... A. Whitney Brown

• god
• him
• understanding

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in our vexation at being unable to understand Him. Fyodor Dostoevsky