Quotes About Understanding

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

This need not be the case. When Christians read the Bible through the lens of Jesus' gracious life and ministry, they will be able to see lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as their sisters and brothers, faced with all the usual human problems, and loved equally by God.

They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a common knowledge is already there. The silence bound them as no words ever could.

The English department of the spirit—that great quagmire that lurks at the bottom of all of us.

Knowledge is useless unless you know where it ends.

LEAD LIKE YOU'RE RIGHT, BUT LISTEN LIKE YOU'RE WRONG

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

If you are not confused, you don´t know what is going on.

IT'S SAID that you can only live life forward and understand it backward.

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on

Magic, after all, is no more than the product of knowledge others don't share.

I have more Dollars than sense

Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

I had found I could best be a good daughter by making sure my father never guessed what to forbid.

There is nothing wrong in giving those you love more choices," she added. "It is only wrong if you try to blackmail or coax them into making the choice you prefer.

Those who know why will always beat those who know how." Here's

Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

Poetry in here keeps the conversation open between the living and the dead, the misunderstood and the wise, the imprisoned and the free. Koestler Voices Vol. 3

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

As there was no saddle, Lisa said to the horse, "May I pull myself up?" And damned if the horse didn't nod.