Quotes About Understanding

Yo sentí que descubría partes de mí misma en las personas homosexuales sobre las que leía.

Chad kept kidding me that I was in love, and asking with whom, and then Sally and Walt did, too, and after a while I didn't even mind, because even if they had the wrong idea about it, they were right. Soon it wasn't hard any more to say it—to myself, I mean, as well as over and over again to Annie—and to accept her saying it to me.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins? I think it was Sunday when that feeling began.

Don't let ignorance win," said Ms. Stevenson. "Let love.

Know the truth," Ms. Widmer used to quote—remember we used to say it to each other?—"and the truth will make you free.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

Don't let ignorance win', said Ms. Stevenson. 'Let love.

there we were sitting moodily on a cold bench saying "I'm sorry" to each other for things we couldn't help.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins? I think it was Sunday when that feeling began.

She's a social worker, Karen," Mac said when I told the group. "She must know something about homosexuality.

It stops hurting so much when you realize how unconstructive hate is.

I can feel you, even though I can't see you.

None so deaf as those that will not hear; none so blind as those that will not see.

Autrefois, j'avais la conviction (humaniste, chrétienne, américaine, qu'en sais-je?) que chaque être humain pouvait l'apprendre quelque chose et valait la peine que je l'écoute, que je fasse un effort pour découvrir son "âme".

Quelle [est] la quantité minimale de passé nécessaire à la production de sens?

Merely knowing a word, moreover, doesn't necessarily make you capable of using it.

All pain is translatable, from the toothache of a dental assistant in Idaho to natural catastrophes like the floods in China.

If you say the same word a million times will it lose its meaning?

The problem, of course, is that languages are not only languages. They're also worldviews -- and therefore, to some extent, untranslatable ...

Les langues ne sont pas seulement des langues : ce sont aussi des world views, c'est à dire des façons de voir et de comprendre le monde. Il y a de l'intraduisible là-dedans... et si vous avez plus d'une world view... vous n'en avez, d'une certaine façon, aucune.

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Law is not theater. Before we write laws reflecting gaudy and dramatic feelings, we must be very sure we understand the difference.