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Quotes About Understanding

But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it also feel this way to you?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Of course, a human heart is bound to be complex. But it must be limited.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Yet are you so certain, good mistress, you wish to be free of this mist? Is it not better some things remain hidden from our minds?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Sisters are supposed to be people you're close to, aren't they. You may not like them much, but you're still close to them.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
They accept that your decisions, your recommendations, are sound and dependable, almost always correct. But they don't like not knowing how you arrive at them. That's where it comes from, this backlash, this prejudice.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
But that's a funny idea. Maybe I did know, somewhere deep down. Something the rest of you didn't.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Wenn ich den Eindruck hätte, dass in dem, was Sie da sagen, auch nur ein Körnchen Vernunft steckt, würde ich mir vielleicht die Mühe machen, mich auf eine solche Diskussion einzulassen. Aber wie die Dinge liegen, werde ich einfach an etwas anderes denken, während Sie weiter vor sich hin plappern.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Bir gün, belki de çok yak?nda, nas?l olduÄŸunu hissetmeye baÅŸlayacaks?n.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Belki de hiçbirimiz yaÅŸad?klar?m?z? tam olarak anlam?yor ve yeterli zaman?m?z kal?p kalmad???n? hissedemiyoruz.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Ama san?r?m, gerçek ÅŸu ki, o s?ralarda bizi birbirimizden ay?rmaya çal??an güçlü gelgitler vard? ve ayr?l???n tamamlanmas? için böyle bir ÅŸeyin olmas? gerekiyordu. Bunu o s?rada anlam?? olsayd?k - kim bilir? - belki birbirimize daha s?k? sar?l?rd?k.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'm sure she barely knew the meaning of loneliness with you here.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Manager, I did all I could to learn Josie and had it become necessary, I would have done my utmost. But I don't think it would have worked out so well. Not because I wouldn't have achieved accuracy. But however hard I tried, I believe now there would have remained something beyond my reach. The Mother, Rick, Melania Housekeeper, the Father. I'd never have reached what they felt for Josie in their hearts. I'm now sure of this, Manager?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'm sure, sir, there are all kinds of ethical issues. But in the end, it's for legislators to decide how these things get regulated, not people like me. For now, I just want to learn as much as I can, so I can take my understanding to the next level.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Pero tenía la esperanza de que, si nuestras miradas seguían unidas durante unos cuantos segundos, ella sabría leer mi expresión como yo había sabido leer la suya.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
This gave us both a little chill, and though we giggled, we didn't say any more about it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Tommy thought it possible the guardians had, throughout all our years at Hailsham, timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
They fear loneliness and that's why they behave as they do. Perhaps Josie too.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
By then, of course, we all knew something I hadn't known back then, which was that none of us could have babies.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The fact is, such great affairs will always be beyond the understanding of those such as you and I, and those of us who wish to make our mark must realize that we best do so by concentrating on what is within our realm; that is to say, by devoting our attention to providing the best possible service to those great gentlemen in whose hands the destiny of civilization truly lies.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
In a time of dangerously increasing division, we must listen. Good writing and good reading will break down barriers.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Bana bakt? ve konu?mamas?na ra?men o bak???n ne anlama geldi?ini anlad?m.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro