Quotes About Understanding

No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do

read the prescription.  It ran: "1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand."   I followed the directions, with the happy result—speaking for myself—that my life was preserved, and is still going on.

I read the prescription.  It ran: "1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.

And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.

Mrs. Postwhistle's theory was that although very few people in this world understood their own business, they understood it better than anyone else could understand it for them. If

Ne, kdepak, milé dámy, vy bu?te vždy sentimentální a soucitné, jako jste dnes – bu?te konejÅ¡ivým máslem naÅ¡emu suchému, okoralému chlebu.

One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move.

I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.

How can you hate somebody who's got one foot in hell itself?

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

T]he problem was too much information. The population was being inundated with conflicting versions of increasingly complex events. People were giving up on understanding anything. The glut of information was dulling awareness, not aiding it. Overload. It encouraged passivity, not involvement.

W]hen a message is squeezed through a twenty-second news spot, so much can be lost that what is left will fail to move anyone enough to make them turn off the set and actually do something. Meanwhile, the viewers will believe that they have learned everything they need to know on that subject and will be bored the next time they hear it.

I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings

Well that's it, I give up. I really don't know what the women are thinking. I've talked with them. I've studied them. I've asked them to study me. And I have to admit I am still at aquare one.

What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.

History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts.

Like so many of Archie's words, they seemed not to enter through my ears but to settle on my skin, there to burrow like tiny eggs awaiting the rain of my maturity, when they would hatch and I at last would understand.

You're a kid trying to figure out the world you were born into, that's all.

And there was more to her seeing than that. What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.

They stood staring at each other's face, the only place their eyes were safe.

Good Boy: Just because he doesn't get into trouble doesn't mean he doesn't appreciate trouble.