Quotes About Understanding

I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.

The Nazis were not right to hate the Jews. But their hating of Jews was not without a cause. No one ever hates without a cause.

No, Geo—underneath all that, Nan really loves me. It's just she wants me to see things her way. You know, she's two years older; that meant a lot when we were children. I've always thought of her as being sort of like a road—I mean, she leads somewhere. With her, I'll never lose my way.

Biliyor musun, senle ben -garip ÅŸey- ayn? yolun yolcusuyuz asl?nda. Ä°kimizin de evleri biraz büyükçe ama gene de bir bak?ma bize dar geliyor.

Beneath outer consciousness, two other beings, anonymous, impersonal, without labels, had met and recognized each other and clasped hands.

No one ever hates without a cause...." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

It's gone! he repeats, almost ecstatically. That's because you let it go, Jacob tells him.

It does appear, then, that what you find in the landscape of the Old Testament when you 'get there' very much depends on whom you take with you and through whose eyes you view it.

It is vitally important that we pay attention to the narrative framework in which the Old Testament laws are set.

Laypeople. They think everything in the past happened at the same time.

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.

The past anchors us, cousin. It gives us a place to stand. You can't hide from it because it hurts. That pain tells you who you are. It demands recognition.

Oh, I get it, I said. It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.

You were supposed to empathize with your friend's problem, but they were, after all, your friend's problems...

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination. Every time you give them a new metaphor, a mustard seed, a field, a garden, a vineyard, it's like pointing something out to a cat - the cat looks at your finger, not at what you're pointing at. They don't need to understand it, they only need to believe, and they do. They imagine the kingdom as they need it to be, they don't need to grasp it, it's there already, they can let it be. Imagination, not intellect.

FYI, when I type WTF, you are supposed to read What the Fuck? Same with OMG, and OMFG, which are Oh My God and Oh My Fucking God. Only a completely lame Disney Channel nimnode pronounces the letters.

Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

Compassion is the same way,' Joshua said. 'That's what the yeti knew. He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without though or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate.

He's not dumb, Biff, he just has a talent for belief.

I am not inclined to use hip-hop vernacular often, but there are times when, like French, it just better expresses the sentiment of the moment