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Understandable Quotes (page 173)

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears. Richard Russo
As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him. Rex Stout
Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand. Dorothy Allison
[pitching the proposal for Mononoke-hime (1997)] There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans. However, even in the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for. A wonderful meeting, or a beautiful thing can exist. We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. What we should depict is, how the boy understands the girl, and the process in which the girl opens... Hayao Miyazaki
He taught us that everyone has a story and the more you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family" (73) - Bill Clinton "Paying Attention Denzel Washington
Christian Nestell Bovee quote: "Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can..."
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. Christian Nestell Bovee
Now you know " the crow whispered as it sat on his shoulder. "Now you know why you must live." "Why " Bran said not understanding falling falling. "Because winter is coming. George R. R. Martin
She understands all at once, with a small shock, exactly what it is she always needed to tell Harland: being there in person is not the same as watching. You might see things better on television, but you'll never know if you were alive or dead while you watched. Barbara Kingsolver
Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me. Fyodor Dostoevsky
For Ransom, this moment had now come in his understanding of Malacandrian song. Now first he saw that its rhythms were based on a different blood than ours, on a heart that beat more quickly, and a fiercer internal heat. C. S. Lewis
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the..."
there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears. Friedrich Nietzsche
As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence. Chris Hedges
Ronald Reagan quote: "A Communist is one who has read Lenin. A Capitalist is one..."
A Communist is one who has read Lenin. A Capitalist is one who understands Lenin. Ronald Reagan
In some evolving civilizations, for reasons which we don't entirely understand, the evolution of consciousness is attended by a disaster of some sort which occurs shortly after the Sy breakthrough. It has something to do with the discovery of the self and the incapacity to deal with it, the consciousness becoming self-conscious but not knowing what to do with the self, not even knowing what its self is, and so ending by being that which is not, and making others what they are not. Walker Percy
John Steinbeck quote: "Lanser said, "There are no peaceful people, when will you..."
Lanser said, "There are no peaceful people, when will you learn it? There are no friendly people, can't you understand that? John Steinbeck

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