Quotes About Understanding

Stop cutting me off!" he yelled. The steel of his eyes sparkled with warning. "The least you can do is give me a chance to speak! We're gonna talk!

abuelita speaks no english. she doesn't need to, zoe thinks. her smile fills and communicates so much more than the empty, half-said words of zoe's life.

A simple chain we had both cursed had done the unthinkable - it forced us to see the world through each other's eyes.

I wonder what it would be like to have someone who knew me so well, someone who would look right into my soul, someone who very touch sent all other thoughts from my mind. I tried to imagine someone who hungered for the same things I did and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, and not because it fulfilled a loveless agreement on paper.

There was so much I didn't know about the ways between a man and woman. But I knew I wanted him. And I knew he wanted me.

Know your enemies as well as you know your allies. Know them better. Make their business yours.

Before that kindness, the color of his eyes hadn't mattered.

Because too little talk frightens people and prompts questions. They're afraid of what goes on in a silent mind. As maybe they should be.

Hear the language that isn't spoken, Kazi, the breaths, the pauses, the fisted hands, the vacant stares, the twitches and tears, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.

Anything good in his life he had fought and scratched for, and his joy came from a deep place of understanding the lack of it.

Listen. Hear the language that isn't spoken, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.

I wondered what it would be like to have someone who knew me so well, someone who would look right into my soul, someone whose very touch sent all other thoughts from my mind. I tried to imagine someone who hungered for the same things I did and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, and not because it fulfilled a loveless agreement on paper.

Every exchange of words between Jase and me seemed like a dance, a step forward, a step back, circling, both of us leading, anticipating, wondering what the next move would be.

He and the Cat looked at each other across that impassable barrier of silence which had been set between man and beast from the creation of the world.

What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?

come back when you know what you're doing.

humane changes with the knowledge

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

Friendship needs no reason!

Problems need to be understood before they can be solved, instructions need to be taken in before they can be followed, ideas need to be shared and absorbed before they can be evaluated.

Listening is the highest form of courtesy.' When you show interest, understanding and response to someone, you are giving that person a rare and valuable gift.

Maud did not see homosexuality either as a crime or a sin; rather, she saw it as an attribute existing most likely from birth, beyond conscious control.

He sincerely believed that the closest one could come to objective truth was reading and listening and trying to understand as many viewpoints as possible.

Ik wil een normaal gesprek met je voeren en omdat jij zo lang bent, kan ik dat niet doen als je er niet bij gaat zitten. Dan krijg ik kramp in mijn nek. - Silvia