Quotes About Understandable

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.

Characters are supposed to have understandable motivations. The reader is supposed to be able to relate to them.

Funny the distinctions that grown-ups make about lying. If a kid does it, then it's automatically bad, bad, bad. If a grown-up they don't like does it and gets found out, the same rules apply, onlymore so. If they do it themselves, however, it is perfectly understandable and is one of those famous "white lies" you hear so much about.

You still cling to romantic notions about writing, that you'll be able to figure things out, that you will understand life, as if life is understandable, as if art is understandable. When has writing explained anything to you? Writing does not force coherence onto a discordant narrative.

Instead of shunning the darkness, we can face straight into it with an open mind. When we do that, the unknown changes. Fearful things become understandable and a truth is suggested: the enigmatic presence of the human mind winks back from the dark. WHITLEY STRIEBER, COMMUNION

It was, Sylveste knew, simply the understandable attempt of a culture to raise a mirror to itself. What made it significant was the complete extent to which it had permeated their culture

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

The demand that poetry be immediately understandable to everyone is truly absurd.

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed.

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.

There were moments, I could now see, when it was understandable to completely go off your rocker. The easiest and most reasonable and maybe proper thing to do in the world, to lose hold of yourself.

Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable, reactions to what life has dealt.

Contextualization in preaching is communicating the gospel message in ways that are understandable or appropriate to the listener's cultural context.

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

Our view is that there is nothing so special or unique about professionals' knowledge to suggest that some of it cannot be made easily accessible and understandable on an online basis.

Even light comedy should be well motivated. It's foolish to assume that a shorter book needs any less attention in the GMC department. In fact, a shorter book needs stronger GMC. By that I mean clear, understandable GMC. Short books can't waste time rambling. You've got to set up your characters and get out of the way. A

Lament turned to Skulduggery. "Do you want me to hold your hand?" "I'd rather you didn't." "Perfectly understandable," Lament said.

It is understandable that those who fail should incline to blame the world for their failure.

The goal of the principles is the creation of mid-level software structures that: • Tolerate change, • Are easy to understand, and • Are the basis of components that can be used in many software systems.