Quotes About Understanding

would hear him. His lips barely moved, and then

sank, at the realization of what had really

there. I think he must have come to hate

She was starving for friendship.

them. She's much too nice about it, but that's the way she is." Leslie almost said that that was why he loved her, but caught

When you begin to thirst for knowledge, you drink it in. You need not go out for it, nor away. The ocean of it surrounds us as the atmosphere.

The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities.

lot of getting along with other people is more about making a decision that you want to get along and then doing whatever is necessary to keep the peace.

But recalling how my ex had nasty BO after track practice never made me feel better. It seemed disingenuous to hold things against him that before I readily accepted as the price of love.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

I have come to love you in spite of--- Do I want to be loved in spite of?...Does anyone?

Ignorance can explain at best a small part of world inequality.

The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.

You can't hate those who are harming themselves. Instead you pity them and try to help them if you can.

The dead are the best listeners in the world. The corpse takes it all in, never interrupts, doesn't criticize me, lets me waffle on for as long as I like.

My master always said you couldn't beat a skill out of somebody. They had to learn in their own way and time. If you rushed them, you only delayed them. You had to be firm but not cruel. Cruelty is a barrier, and barriers slow people down.

But knowing me the way I do (now that sounds weird!)

I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how.

You're not supposed to give people things unless you're sure they'd like to get them from you...[B]ut it goes deeper than that. when you give somebody something, you're saying out loud that you know they'd like to have you give -

What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two.

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Remember that being offended is not the same thing as being right.

Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don't necessarily understand.