Quotes About Understanding

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

One of the hardest things to deal with in a relationship is when you can see the beautiful essence of of your partner, but your partner can't see his or her own essence - or yours.

We need to be able to acknowledge and tolerate a person's wounded self -putting it into a perspective- in order to create a loving relationship with them.

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

He loved her, would give his life for her, he knew that now. Why that was, he wasn't completely sure. It didn't matter. It was what it was.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

We have all learned at an early age that the cold of ice cream is not very dangerous, and it is strange now to almost nobody. The great change in taste and attitude in our culture is not the least of the revolutions which the understanding and control of cold have wrought in our lives.

Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

What's that?" said the cat-- "Faith." "To believe what I tell you about what your don't know," said the fish.

marvelled that you could live with a man for years and bear his children, yet remain quite remote from him.

I will never understand the whole world or even one country. All I can do is try to understand the truth and lies in the simplest choices I face every day.

Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less alone.

Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.

Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydrems?

I feel certain that words can be as human as people, alive with the breath of compassion.

I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.

Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't.