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Understood Quotes (page 20)

And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours of Love, and admitted I was terribly clever in love affairs, whereas it seems I really had no idea how a eulogy ought to be made. For I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well... Plato
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I..."
They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by 'tolerantly amused eyes' was years away from me. I don't think I really saw people then, except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understood, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of... Doris Lessing
When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I found myself. When I experienced humiliation and yet kept on walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny. Perhaps there's something wrong with me, I don't know, perhaps my marriage was a dream I couldn't understand while it lasted. All I know is that even though I can live without her, I would still like to see her again, to say what I never said when we were together: I love you more than... Paulo Coelho
When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions. Orson Scott Card
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or water if he was thirsty; not by calculation, but in a constant awareness by which no smallest trifle was missed. Now, when he came down the stairs with a shut mouth and blue lines under his eyes, Hephaistion received some mute signal he understood, and fell into step beside him. Mary Renault
Marie Curie quote: "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is to be understood."
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is to be understood. Marie Curie
Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. David Guterson
Glenn Beck quote: "Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself."
Somehow I understood without the storm I couldn't know myself. Glenn Beck
People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant. Terry Prachett
It was dark in the corridor; they were standing near a light. For a minute they looked silently at each other. Razumikhin remembered that minute all his life. Raskolnikov's burning and fixed look seemed to grow more intense every moment, penetrating his soul, his consciousness. All at once Razumikhin gave a start. Something strange seemed to pass between them . . . as if the hint of some idea, something horrible, hideous, flitted by and was suddenly understood on both sides . . . Razumikhin... Fyodor Dostoevsky
George R. R. Martin quote: "He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into..."
He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world. George R. R. Martin
C. S. Lewis quote: "Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God."
Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God. C. S. Lewis
His own life suddenly seemed repellently formal. Whom did he know or what did he know and whom did he love? Sitting on the stump under the burden of his father's death and even the mortality inherent in the dying, wildly colored canopy of leaves, he somehow understood that life was only what one did every day.... Nothing was like anything else, including himself, and everything was changing all of the time. He knew he couldn't perceive the change because he was changing too, along with... Jim Harrison
Miles Davis quote: "If you understood everything I said, you’d be me"
If you understood everything I said, you’d be me Miles Davis

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