Quotes About Understanding

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.

He used to - when he was just a kitten - stand and stare up at us as if asking a question. We never understood what the question was. Maybe now he knows the answer.

He will never understand what happened that day between a young man and a young woman. There was a magic: and the name of it was love.

Gossip isn't scandal and its not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same

Good, because I don't understand anything at all.

He slowly unfolded it, cleared his throat, scratched his head, and said, "Would you rather go to the dentist or throw up?" Good grief , thought Caroline, as the minutes ticked by. How was he supposed to be her for a day if he didn't ask any better questions than that?

Will all this never end?" asked Mr. Hatford. "Why do I get the feeling that I don't even know half of all that's been going on around here?" "'Cause you don't, I guess," Wally mumbled.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

Was it only through another that I could begin to get at myself?

Il vaut mieux se taire et passer pour un con plutôt que de parler et de ne laisser aucun doute sur le sujet.

Et puis vous vous rendez compte que l'amour n'est ni dépendance, ni possessivité, ni convenance, ni négation de soi ou de l'autre. (p.233)

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.

It is possible to differ politically, socially, religiously, or in many other ways, yet to be friends.

But I have so much to learn!" Zane cried plaintively. "Then get to it, Death," she said, closing the door behind her.

The manifest mind of a woman, he realized, made a great deal of difference in her appeal. Lesson for the day.

Had he known of this on the way over—but of course that was the thing about information. Without it, a person suffered enormous complications.

What do you mean, he?

Of course. MAN—an acronym." The mouth on the screen quirked with obscure humor. "Oh? What do the letters stand for?" "Multi-Appendaged-Numbskull, of course. Every creature who is worthy of the title of sapience knows that.

The man glanced up. "Hello. Tweeter tells me you're Kody, a fellow Mundanian, newly arrived, and you want to compare notes." "Uh, yes, in essence," Kody agreed, taken aback. All that from one tweet? Well, maybe it did fit within 140 characters.

If he's lost in gourdland, he's still lost when he returns there, even if he's been a long time out of his gourd. He doesn't know where he's going because he doesn't know where he's been.

Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

Mira, I wanna tell you something. I ain't got time to tell you what I should've when I had time, but I dig you a whole lot. Deeg you? she asked, puzzled. I explained to her what it meant and told her that I would write it to her in Spanish and say it like it was.

The more you look, the more you see.

O que de pior acontece a qualquer pessoa é tornar-se inimigo da palavra