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Quotes About Understanding

Mentre attendo che il mondo non scritto si chiarisca ai miei occhi, c'è sempre una pagina scritta a portata di mano, in cui posso tornare a tuffarmi; m'affretto a farlo, con la più grande soddisfazione: là almeno, anche se riesco a capire solo una piccola parte dell'insieme, posso coltivare l'illusione di star tenendo tutto sotto controllo.
~ Italo Calvino
È una delle grandi difficoltà della vita d'indovinare ciò che una donna vuole. Ascoltarne le parole non serve, perché tutto un discorso può essere annullato da uno sguardo e neppure questo sa dirigerci quando ci si trova con lei, per suo volere, in una comoda buia stanzuccia.
~ Italo Svevo
V jedné jediné mali?kosti se s Augustou neshodujeme, a to v názoru, jak zacházet se zlobivými dÄ›tmi: já si myslím, že bolest dítÄ›te je ménÄ› d?ležitá než naÅ¡e a že je lepÅ¡í zp?sobit bolest dítÄ›ti, jestliže to dospÄ›lého uÅ¡etÃ…â"¢í velké mrzutosti, kdežto ona se domnívá, že jsme dítÄ› zplodili, a tak je musíme taky snáÅ¡et.
~ Italo Svevo
Non c'è niente di più disgustoso che di vedersi respinto un consiglio ch'è stato sinceramente studiato con uno sforzo che costò persino delle ore di sonno.
~ Italo Svevo
No lo dudes, tu gran carácter carece de secretos para mí, incluso cuando no sé descifrar una palabra, comprendo o creo comprender lo que querías decir con los peculiares trazos de tu pluma
~ Italo Svevo
You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
~ Italo Svevo
L'amore sano è quello che abbraccia una donna sola e intera, compreso il suo carattere e la sua intelligenza.
~ Italo Svevo
I speak from my present level of ignorance. The more you know, the more ignorant you become, because ignorance grows exponentially—the more answers you get, the more new questions arise.
~ Unknown
Every one is right in there mind.
~ Unknown
The circumference of love depends on the angle you see it from, I learned in the course of that madcap week after Father proposed to Rose.
~ Ivan Doig
Latin was not a hard topic at all compared to romance, from what I could see.
~ Ivan Doig
The music of men's lives' isn't as easy to recognize as the average fool thinks
~ Ivan Doig
to speak that dialect called if
~ Ivan Doig
I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can't go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don't know what to do with it. This cannot be easy. But still, you touch me anyway.
~ Unknown
Please rate the strength of your feelings from one to five, one meaning you feel not very strongly about it all, to five meaning you have very strong feelings about me getting top surgery. Now, please fold up your answers and put them in your pocket. Please keep them to yourself, as I will try to do with my feelings about your breasts. Thank you so much for participating.
~ Unknown
words are always imperfect, words are just sounds we make with our mouths that point our minds to think of things that cannot be fully described in words anyway. I am a writer, so I know where words fail us. A name is not a person, it is just what we have agreed to call them.
~ Unknown
She looked right at me and said nothing. I assumed it was because she was hanging from my every word, so I continued.
~ Unknown
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
~ Unknown
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
~ Unknown
Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.
~ Ivana Trump
To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
~ Unknown
To hunt words is to do no trespass.
~ Unknown
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.
~ Iyanla Vanzant