Quotes About Understanding

Whenever one of you guys says people deal with bad stuff in their own way, it means you don't deal with it at all. You just wait for it to go away. You don't help. You don't listen. You don't call. You don't write. WE deal with it in our own way. WE deal with it. We girls. We make the meals and clean up the messes and take the crap and listen to you talk about how you're dealing with it in your own way. What way? No way!

This is what it is like to be married: conversations in which no one actually speaks.

They were photographs you had to explain, which meant they were a failure.

she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no longer seem like strangers. Crusoe and Friday. Ishmael and Ahab. Daisy and Gatsby. Pip and Estella. Me. Me. Me. I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel.

There are really only two commandments of Nanaville: love the grandchildren, and hold your tongue.

He was quiet and thoughtful, letting her do all the talking until she would reach one of her acerbic pitches and he would murmur, You don't really mean that. But he had never seemed put off.

That's a naive comment from someone as intelligent as you are.... You always do that. The intelligence thing. It's as though if you're smart, you will understand yourself.

photographs you had to explain, which meant they were a failure.

Our ability to understand, to embrace, to help, to know, to feel and to love is bounded only by our own emotional ambitions. The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

If you want help, you shouldn't act like a person who never needs any," my daughter muttered to me one night when I was angry, and for once I was at a loss for words because she had so completely nailed my modus operandi.

Peter was easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure. But Rebecca forgave him nothing. She told herself that this was not because he

Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know.

Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...

I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing; for much as I had seen before, I never knew till now the utter misery of a cab-horse's life.

I am never afraid of what I know

No, he said, that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.

Sadece bilgisizlik mi! Sadece bilgisizlikten, ha! Nas?l sadece bilgisizlikten diyebilirsin? Kötü kalplilikten sonra dünyadaki en kötü ÅŸey bilgisizlik, haberin yok mu? En çok hangisinin zararl? olduÄŸunu ancak Tanr? bilir. Ä°nsanlar ' Ah! bilmiyordum, kötü bir niyetim yoktu' deyince her ÅŸeyin yoluna giriverdiÄŸini san?yorlar.

we should see what was there, and know what was what, and be much less frightened than by only seeing bits of things that we can't understand.

Hissiz insanlar? küçümseme. Ne yaÅŸad?klar?n? bilsen, sen de hissiz olmay? dilerdin.

Of course I did not understand all he said, but I learned more and more to know what he meant

Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated.