Quotes About Understanding

understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history.

The Lemon Tree Important to read for those who care about the conflict between Palistinians and jews

By now the dream of immediate return had transformed into the reality of long-term struggle. The Palestinians had begun to understand that their return would not come about through diplomatic pressure.

Dalia was the only one in Israel who understood," Bashir insisted.

I like things to be clearly defined. Trouble brews when the lines are blurred. When people don't know where they stand.

There was nothing like losing something to make one value its worth.

Culta? Perdone que le diga, Víctor, pero es la primera persona que conozco que no ha sido capaz de leerse completo el diario de Ana Frank.

Alienation is studious; you learn more about wishes when they are not what you wish for.

Diversity is thus increasingly exercised as a form of public relations: "the planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain good will and understanding between an organisation and its publics.

that in some parental responses to a child coming out, this unhappiness is expressed not so much as being unhappy about the child being queer, but as being unhappy about the child being unhappy.

Lord, on this day, please grant us the serenity to accept all that we cannot change, the courage to change the things we need to, and your everlasting wisdom so that we may know the difference.

Never be afraid to learn from the ether...That's where knowledge lives before someone hunts it, kills it, and mounts it in a book.

Those who try to grasp on to the mystery will never succeed. Only those who let it slip their fingers will come to know it, and hear its secrets

He whispers in her ear, and she basks in his attention, trumpeting happily at the sight of him. Doesn't she remember?

He's paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page. If I don't know what's going on in their lives, how am I supposed to insert myself in the conversation?

ones I had watched.

Explaining the moment of connection between a reader and book to someone who's never experienced it is like trying to describe sex to a virgin.

Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.

Pax? That's his name? It means 'peace,' you know." Peter knew that—lots of people had told him. "But

Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.

What brings two people together anyway?

It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I'm sorry, to say it's okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then… and then. Who knew?

I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there's stuff you don't know, can't know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I'm convinced there are parts of myself inside them.