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Understanding Quotes (page 59)

I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, or medium things, like if you cut an onion under running water your eyes won't sting, and if you wash your fingers afterwards with lemon-juice they won't stink. I used to want to know all the secrets, and every time I learned one, I felt like I'd taken--a step. On a journey. To a place. A... Cory Doctorow
You don't care what others think - which might be understandable. But you don't care even to make them think as you do?"No."But that's...that's monstrous."Is it? Probably. I couldn't say. Ayn Rand
Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it. James Clavell
David Lynch quote: "We think we understand the rules when we become adults but..."
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. David Lynch
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, then it wasn't true love... Paulo Coelho
The parts of the universe . . . all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole. Blaise Pascal
Franz Kafka quote: "The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding..."
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. Franz Kafka
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question. Carl Sagan
She's not Shimamoto, I told myself. She can't give me what Shimamoto gave. But here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. Haruki Murakami
Vivienne Westwood quote: "I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is..."
I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself. Vivienne Westwood
Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise. Nicholas Sparks
As we were coming up again, we met with some Indians of strange aspects, that is, of a larger size, and other sort of features, than those of our country. Our Indian slaves, that rowed us, asked them some questions, but they could not understand us, but showed us a long cotton string, with several knots on it, and told us, they had been coming from the mountains so many moons as there were knots. Aphra Behn
God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living? Fyodor Dostoevsky
The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can communicate with you at all. It's a credit to my ego-strength that I'm not at this point totally autistic. Philip K. Dick
Every day, sincerely and without phoniness, Lou demonstrated by his actions how very vital it is - more than anything else - to understand and appreciate the people who work with you...Do your job well, but always remember that the people you work with are your most valuable asset. Embrace them. Honor them. Respect them" (206) - "Prescriptions for Success" by John Schuerholz Denzel Washington

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