Quotes About Understanding

The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.

Everything that is said is said by an observer.

That is a pity; they must have known about whole worlds that we cannot touch.

You have to deal with people the way they are, not the way you'd like them to be.

Dad was alive. I believed Conor, but I still didn't really know it. But now I do.

I don't know how you humans ever get anything done, you ask so many questions.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices." [ Ten rules for writing fiction ( The Guardian , 20 February 2010)]

It must be quite hard when you're a parent and you find out that your children's dreams are nothing like the dreams you've had for them.

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.

You've got to have brains to play dumb.

All we marrieds have a marriage chuckle. A marriage chuckle is a fake laugh you bring out when your spouse does something dumb that you have to pretend is charming. My

She's sweet" means Asperger's. "She's outdoorsy" means lesbian. "Hmm" is Southern Lady code for: I don't agree with you but am polite enough not to rub your nose in your ignorance. "Nice talking with you" is code for: Party's over, now scoot.

Because it turns out, "If it happens, it happens" is Southern Lady Code for we don't want kids.

And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. I Ching

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

It was all there. I wanted to live in this land. I had to live there, and master the language.

The truth lies somewhere between the reasons and the stories.

This is all there is! So that you children will know and live right!

But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end, can one understand?

sometimes, we touch each other. No one else gets that close to me. He behaves

He who laughs last didn't get it.

pact of silence".

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.