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Quotes About Understand

well in that case lets get this knight right. it means to understand him.
~ Unknown
I can't understand why you're writing scripts for Bugs Bunny," the old lady replied with some asperity. "He's funny enough just as he is.
~ Chuck Jones
Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can't hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don't see the big picture.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Ah how much easier to to bear and understand pain than that promise of spring's frigid and liquid joy. And with such modesty she was awaiting it: the poignancy of goodness.
~ Clarice Lispector
I always liked to arrange things. I guess it's my only real vocation. By putting things in order, I create and understand at the same time.
~ Clarice Lispector
Don't you think there's a sinister emptiness in everything? Yes, there is. While we wait for the heart to understand.
~ Clarice Lispector
Again Serena's frustrations, her disappointments, exist within a system you understand not to try to understand in any fair-minded way because to do so is to understand the erasure of the self as systemic, as ordinary.
~ Claudia Rankine
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.
~ Cleveland Amory
Philosophy is inexistent without reason. Weigh things as they are.
~ Unknown
Wolsey always said, work out what people want, and you might be able to offer it; it is not always what you think, and may be cheap to supply.
~ Hilary Mantel
They say you had a trade as a blacksmith; is that correct?" Now she will say, shoe a horse? "It was my father's trade." "I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools.
~ Hilary Mantel
I aim to make the fiction flexible so that it bends itself around the facts as we have them. Otherwise I don't see the point. Nobody seems to understand that. Nobody seems to share my approach to historical fiction. I suppose if I have a maxim, it is that there isn't any necessary conflict between good history and good drama.
~ Hilary Mantel
People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
~ Hippocrates
Those who know something of the juvenile spirit can understand how youth will always lend a glad ear to such a rallying cry.
~ Unknown
Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
~ Holly Black
Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.
~ Holly Black
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
~ Holly Black
I do not understand why he likes me, but it is exciting to be liked.
~ Holly Black
Her Christianity was of that peculiarly Northern Ireland brand: whenever two or three are gathered together in my name some other poor bastard is going to get a good kicking. Salmon Rushdie and I, we understand fatwas.
~ Unknown
le hubiera leído el pensamiento.
~ Liane Moriarty
I hope you boys will excuse me, but I would rather the State Police answered all questions. I am sure you understand how I feel.
~ Unknown
Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal childhood. What's useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness.
~ Unknown
You don't understand," I said, adding the most difficult claim of fealty I'd ever made, "That's my son.
~ Lionel Shriver
know, Dom, but God, it's just I need to be so careful. I need this separation period just to pass really, really quietly with no drama and no … things.' 'I still don't understand why you're not just doing a quickie divorce.
~ Lisa Jewell