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Understandable Quotes (page 157)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "I could not understand why men who knew all about good and..."
I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Tad Williams quote: "Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don’t..."
Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don’t understand it. Tad Williams
Stanislaw Lem quote: "How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you..."
How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another? Stanislaw Lem
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. Franz Kafka
Dan Brown quote: "Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't..."
Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand. Dan Brown
I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you. Anais Nin
Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it. Mitch Albom
Martin Luther quote: "If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can..."
If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness. Martin Luther
We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist. Frank Miller
the great aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love. Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with. Paulo Coelho
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally..."
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back. J. R. R. Tolkien
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. Martin Luther King jr.
But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left for magic. It's only when you're lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that's why they like us to live in chaos. Bernard Cornwell
Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense his tragedy and her part in it. It was not that she had ever forced her way on him. That had never been necessary. Her way had simply been the air he breathed and when at last he had found other air, he couldn't survive in it. He felt that even if she didn't understand at once, the letter would leave her with an enduring chill and perhaps in time lead her to see herself as she was. Flannery O'Connor
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution. Haruki Murakami

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