Quotes About Understanding

Sapeva ascoltare. E sapeva leggere. Non i libri, quelli son buoni tutti, sapeva leggere la gente. I segni che la gente si porta addosso: posti, rumori, odori, la loro terra, la loro storia... Tutta scritta, addosso.

Ako nekog zaista voliš, ali zaista, ne mora da zna?i da je najbolje da s njim živiš.

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore...

I was just... thinking. That must have been quite an experience for you.

That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.

I am not frightened of you Kyle. I am frightened for you.

He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like 'you know, we are much alike, you and I I'. But good enough

Crazies always recognize each other. I think Melville said it, in a slightly different context: "Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round." Of course, we're not talking about genius here, we're talking about crazies—but

I know! It means when two boys are really happy 'cause they love each other." She laughed. He wasn't certain whether to laugh along with her—or cry.

I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate that they're left-handed.' Is that really love? Or is that saying, 'I'm willing to love you as I'd like you to be, not as you are'? Either God's love is unconditional or it's not.

No, Manuel said firmly. Gay isn't wrong or right. It just is.

If you think the sea is blue and I think it's green, why try to convince you?

Even if you are learning facts that you are not going to be able to use in your daily life, it enriches you – the fact itself just enriches you as a human being and broadens your outlook on life and makes you a more understanding and better person.

There's nothing wrong with a man shedding a tear.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love / It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

Oh, no; I should find there people who would force me to understand things of which I would prefer to remain ignorant, and who would try to explain to me, in spite of myself, a mystery which even they do not understand.

As for his wife, he bowed to her, as some husbands do to their wives, but in a way that bachelors will never comprehend, until a very extensive code is published on conjugal life.

Death, just like life, has it's secret pains and lust. All in that to know them.

God wants us to understand Him and to think about His power. That's why He has given us a free will.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

But one of Stuart's most personable (and most annoying) qualities is his refusal to judge strangers until he knows them, especially if they're peculiar.

You'd think the homeless would despise the rest of us, but it seems the thing they want to do most is talk. If only they could sit us down and let it all spill out - every twist of their history, down to the last murmur - then they'd be cured.

I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the right way again.

Just because you met somebody, doesn't mean to say you know anything about them.