Quotes About Understanding
He was a successful general because he knew men. He knew that all men will go to hell over three things: alcohol, money . . . and sex. This fellow apparently hadn't. Better for him if he had!
~ Ford Madox Ford
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As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't talk. Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt.
~ Ford Madox Ford
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If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog. What other motives can they give you ?
~ Ford Madox Ford
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If you live among dogs they'll think you've the motives of a dog.
~ Ford Madox Ford
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You and I are like two people . . .' He paused and began again more quickly: 'Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read Monkey's Soap; if you look back when you've passed it's Needs no Rinsing. . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet third. . . . But I hope we respect each other.
~ Ford Madox Ford
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That in effect was love. It struck him as astonishing. The word was so little in his vocabulary...
~ Ford Madox Ford
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It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?
~ Ford Madox Ford
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One's friends ought to believe that one is a gentleman. Automatically. That is what makes one and them in harmony. Probably your friends are your friends because they look at situations automatically as you look at them…
~ Ford Madox Ford
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Then," Father Consett said, "if ye know him so well, Sylvia Satterthwaite, how is it ye can't get on with him better? They say: Tout savoir c'est tout pardonner." "It isn't," Sylvia said. "To know everything about a person is to be bored… bored… bored!
~ Ford Madox Ford
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She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to ruin himself for the object of his affections. But this at least she found exaggerated.
~ Ford Madox Ford
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You and I are like two people . . . He paused and began again more quickly: Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read 'Monkey's Soap'; if you look back when you've passed it's 'Needs no Rinsing.' . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet third. . . . But I hope we respect each other.
~ Ford Madox Ford
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My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever.
~ Ford Madox Ford
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Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that there was always some damn fool making up a word that served no purpose except to cause trouble.
~ Forrest Carter
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Granma's name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, 'I kin ye, Bonnie Bee,' he was saying, 'I love ye,' for the feeling was in the words.
~ Forrest Carter
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Granpa said he seen that and so he knowed. Granpa said ye had to understand. But most people didn't want to-it was too much trouble-so they used words to cover their own laziness and called other folks shiftless.
~ Forrest Carter
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Love solves nothing, but your love made me appear to myself.
~ Forrest Gander
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What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry loneliness about with her as a leper carries his scabs. 'No one can do anything for me: no one can do anything against me.
~ Francois Mauriac
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Even the genuinely good cannot, unaided, learn to love. To penetrate beyond the absurdities, the vices, and, above all, the stupidities of human creatures, one must possess the secret of a love which the world has now forgotten. Until that secret shall have been discovered, all betterment in conditions of life will be in vain
~ Francois Mauriac
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Dime lo que lees y te diré quién eres, eso es verdad, pero te conoceré mejor si me dices lo que relees.
~ Francois Mauriac
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Une tête bien faite et une tête bien pleine (kepala yang baik adalah kepala yang penuh dengan ilmu pengetahuan
~ Francois Rabelais
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I know flies in milk. I know the man by his clothes. I know fair weather from foul. I know the apple by the tree. I know the tree when I see the sap. I know when all is one. I know who labors and who loafs. I know everything but myself.
~ Francois Villon
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Between old and young there should be consideration and respect.
~ Frances Carpenter
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So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
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To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
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