Quotes About Understanding

But I should have known.

The thing about old friends is that they never want you to change.

In my position with the first reports coming in I should have known. She sat up straight on her haunches and she cried silently.

There is a pain you can't think your way out of. You can't talk it away.

the American press tended to portray a China that was overwhelmingly negative and Beijing-centered. And yet like any waiguoren in China, I knew that I had access to a great deal of information that was unavailable to the Chinese, and as a result I often felt as if I understood the political situation better than the locals. It was impossible to avoid this type of arrogance, even though I realized that it was misleading and condescending, and I was careful not to voice my opinions openly.

Story--plot--gives meaning to each page. If you could number all the pages so that you knew their exact sequence and which page was yours, life would still be meaningless if you didn't know what the book was about.

In scripture, names work like mirrors that reflect back the essence of a thing. But more than that, they help CREATE a thing.

The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read. Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it. When I start talking about Qaanaaq, to myself or to others, I again start to lose what has never been truly mine.

V oby?ejném ?ase, v tom na hodinách, pochopí ?lov?k ur?ité v?ci. Když nechá ?as b?žet, pochopí jiné.

I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them.

Love is a book and a light to read it by.

Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.

This relationship among author, text, and reader is known in the literary trade as

Interpretation is the fuel that drives understanding. The making of meaning is what

All men lie. That's how they operate. if you want a longterm relationship with a man you've got to understand it's going to be with a liar. It's in their nature - it's genetic, it's a bloody Darwinian acquired characteristic for survival, OK? They tell you what they want you to hear.

Perspective. Everything was about perspective. One man's darkness was another man's daylight. How come so many people did not realize that?

I like dogs. Dogs don't judge people.

Life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backwards.

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle of their own you know nothing about. Be kind to everyone.

No podemos eludir las palabras que hablan de Él para descubrir su voluntad de una forma más segura o más clara.