Quotes About Understanding

Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete," his mother explained carefully.

But now Jonas had experienced real sadness. He had felt grief. He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. These were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt. Today, he felt happiness.

They have never known pain

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

What did you perceive? The Giver asked. Warmth, Jonas replied

But here in Village, marks and failings were not considered flaws at all. They were valued.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, boy, choose learning. It works more of the time.

It indicates a deep confusion of thinking to mistake one's own discomfort for a benefit to another.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

For Berry, you just be there, Whit. Be the one person in the wide green world she doesn't have to explain it to, because you were there and saw it all for yourself. Hand her a clean cloth if she cries or bleeds, and some warm thing for the pain that doubles her over. The time to hold her will come. This day isn't over yet.

Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Something I did not know at twenty," said Nikys slowly, "that I do know at thirty, is that when a woman marries a man, she marries his life. And it had better be the life she wants to lead.

slowing—"in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding." He

Learn everything that existed in the universe, and whatever was left, that dwarfish-man-shaped hole in the center, would be him by process of elimination.

If you don't understand something, you should just try to learn more, that's all.

I can tell you truths. I cannot give you understanding. For how can one give what one does not possess? I have always told the truth.

Weddell/Canaba was still an ass at heart, Miles reflected. But he did know his molecular biology. After

Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy's human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands. Not at all heroic.

Ah." "And what does ah mean?" he asked, slightly exasperated. "It's sort of like biting my tongue, but less painful.

And . . . it would be a real relief for me to have someone along I can talk to freely." Her smile tilted a little at this. "Talk, or vent?" "I—hem!—suspect this one is going to entail quite a lot of venting, yes. D'you think you can stand it?

Fear outran its cause