Quotes About Understanding

Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions. It was amazing how it worked.

He did not own her, and she did not own him. The act of his movement so that they faced the same direction meant far more to her than other gesture could. -Aviendha about Rand

People are people, low or high.

When you ask questions, Lini used to say, then you have to hear the answers whether you want to or not.

I expect you will not lack for company after I go. Just remember that some women see a man with their hearts, while others see no more than a bauble to wear, no different than a necklace or a bracelet. Remember that i will come back, and I am one who sees with her heart.

Uncomplicated men assumed others to have uncomplicated motivations

There was nothing a woman would not tell you if you kissed her enough.

He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

He found what he'd hoped to see, the reason why she'd left so quickly. Just outsidee the tent, Lan held her tightly.

My mother," she said firmly, "always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

This was not the first time she had squeezed meanings from his words that he never knew were in them.

Friends lightened many burdens, even those they did not know of.

Quite often, when a woman was agitated, she tried to soothe others whether they required soothing or not.

Women could compress a great deal into one look.

Everyone knew that, and not many stopped to think that anything that "everyone knew" deserved close examination. Being

What is the best method of appeasing an offended party? Would it not be to give some ground to them, acknowledge what they have done right?

Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.

Her silence was more eloquent than any words.

Faile was the only woman Perrin wanted, but sometimes he felt like a fish trying to understand a bird.

You did not rise in the ships just through your ability to Weave the Winds or predict the weather or fix a position. You needed to read the intent that lay between the words of your orders, to interpret small gestures and facial expressions; you had to notice who deferred to whom, even subtly, for courage and ability alone took you only so high.

What are you two blathering about?" she said sharply. "Just things that men talk about," Lan replied. "You wouldn't understand," Rand said.

I want you to stop thinking you're going to make them do anything. They've decided what they are going to do, and you can't change it. But maybe—just maybe—you can help me keep them alive.