Quotes About Understanding

You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

Iba a contaros algo -empezó Mel-. Bueno, iba a demostrar algo. Veréis: sucedió hace unos meses, pero sigue sucediendo en este mismo instante, y es algo que debería hacer que nos avergoncemos cuando hablamos como si supiéramos de qué hablamos cuando hablamos de amor.

There were things he wanted to say, grieving things, consoling things, things like that.

You tell me you didn't sleep well. I say I didn't either. You had a terrible night. "Me too." We're extraordinarily calm and tender with each other as if sensing the other's rickety state of mind. As if we knew what the other was feeling. We don't, of course. We never do. No matter. It's the tenderness I care about. That's the gift this morning that moves and holds me. Same as every morning.

My wife finally took her eyes off the blind man and looked at me. I had the feeling she didn't like what she saw. I shrugged.

Creo que en el amor no somos más que principiantes. Decimos

Tuhaf bir ÅŸekilde her ÅŸey olabilecekken, her ÅŸeyin zaten olduÄŸunu fark ettik.

Oía los latidos de mi corazón. Oía el corazón de los demás.

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

That's the trouble with cops. You're all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you.

Then she laughed. It was almost a racking laugh. It shook her as the wind shakes a tree. I thought there was puzzlement in it, not exactly surprise, but as if a new idea had been added to something already known and it didn't fit. Then I thought that was too much to get out of a laugh.

Kind of smart guesser, ain't you, young man? Can't wait for folks to get their mouth open hardly." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Morrison. This is an important matter to us—" "This here young man don't seem to have no trouble keepin' his mouth in place." "He's married," I said. "He's had practice.

The pursuit of knowledge, brother, is the askin' of many questions.

That's the trouble with cops. You're all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you.

He looks at you or doesn't. You look at him. He says nothing and you say nothing. There is nothing to communicate.

I'm beginning to get it," I said slowly. "Take a family like yours and somebody in it has to be the dark meat.

Immortality, power, dominance, all are illusions. Don't you see? We are simply pawns in a game beyond our understanding.' Pug

Love doesn't demand; it accepts. It has taken me my life to learn this.

Love doesn't demand; it accepts. Mara to Kamilo.

Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner's acceptance of the other's intractability.

Tell them this: somehow our two worlds stand linked again by some dark power of Tsurani origin. It moves against the Kingdom. It is power beyond human understanding, perhaps power to challenge the gods themselves.

One of the problems with being my age is you look at everyone who is younger as children, and when everyone else around you is younger, it means you live in a universe of children. So you tend to scold more than is proper.

it is almost impossible in the heat of the moment to understand long-term consequences.

Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.