Quotes About Understanding

As she read and reread the note scrawled in Janie's riotously looping hand, she understood that she was holding one of those rare objects brought into being by a hope you didn't know you still had.

Truth has many different drawers and shelves.

Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

Udayan has indirectly hinted the stock market fall for the next 6 month . Only who can read between the lines has understood his remarks and commentary

Suami dan istri tak harus serta merta sahabat. Cinta adalah cinta, bukan pengorbanan. Perasaan adalah untuk ditolak atau dibunuh, tidak untuk dilekaskan, apalagi untuk dibiarkan mengalir. Lagipula, begitu Ibu mengikatkan diri pada Bapak, ia menunggu kapan seseorang tak hanya menggunakan perasaan, tapi juga otaknya. Ia tak pernah sekalipun, dalam proses ini, kehilangan kesabarannya. Lalu ia memilih.

Nggak ada yang lebih menyedihkan di dunia ini, daripada permintaan maaf yang nggak pada tempatnya.

Nuniek knew only too well when to stop, when to heed her husband's change of voice. She knew that you had to feel your way through a marriage, not unlike politics. Just when you thought your relationship with your husband was firmly in place, the tables began, ever so slightly and unfathomably, to turn.

She would stay like that, quiet and smiling, while her husband patiently, bigheartedly, closed the discussion, as men of wisdom often did with their wives.

I know something about responsibility. Just don't ask me about politics.

it was always the safest thing to say. I understand. In fact, it is what you say when you don't understand, don't want to understand.

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.

Don't be so eager to judge, Suzette. You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking.

Don't think about Buddhist terminology; don't think about what the books say or anything like that. Just ask yourself simply, "How, at this moment, do I interpret myself?" That's all.

According to the Buddhist point of view, there is no human problem that cannot be solved by human beings.

Experience is the only prophesy of wise men.

A laxity pervades the popular use of words.

It's because of the way you are. It's why you're happy reading novels. You're only comfortable with a piece of the world that you can hold in your hand.

The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.

To err is human to refrain from laughing, humane.

As I learn from you,I guess you learn from me—although you're older—and white—and somewhat more free.

As I learn from you, I guess you learn From me --- although You're older --- and white And somewhat more free.

Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace.