Understood Quotes - Page 40

• The world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Children, World, Problem

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• She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him. He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben.

  Holly Black

  Mother, Real, Kissing

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, Boys, Might

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “That Summer”, p.198, Penguin

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• When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Children, Mean, Work Out

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• Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.

  Paul Cornell

  People, Rude, Ifs

  "Doctor Who The Scream Of The Shalka". Book by Paul Cornell, July 31, 2013.

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• And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Winter, Sun

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• I really understood what was happening in Cannes. I was in a restaurant during a break and when I came out 2 hours later, 500 people were waiting for me at the exit. It was total chaos. They literally had to carry me to the car.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Car, Waiting

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• I'm not particularly good at coping with it. I just cope. I just leave my brain at the door and just stand there. I can get the screaming more than I get the photo things. That's the worst, when you have this wall of photographers. I've never understood the logic in how they do it. Everybody shouts at the same time, and you're trying to do a logical thing, looking from the left to the right. And they almost always end up looking disappointed with you afterwards.

  Robert Pattinson

  Wall, Doors, Brain

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• Nobody, she felt, understood her-not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie - except her man.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Girl, Mother, Brother

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.

  Robin Williams

  Jobs, Memorable, Steps

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

  Germaine Greer

  Coffee, Home, Men

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• Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Writing, Misunderstood

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• At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Night, Years

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.40, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.409, Macmillan

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• We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Inspirational, Writing, Self Worth

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• Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.

  Bruno Barbey

  Photography, Understanding, World

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• Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Firsts, Photographer

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Kings, War, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

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• Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Teaching, Learning, Lessons

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• Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Music, Morning, Fall

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Forever, Needs, Miserable

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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• Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They have understood that they could not cleave to Jesus Christ as the Head of the Church if they did not belong to the Body of Jesus Christ which is the Church. Nor could they ever hope to possess in all its purity the faith of Jesus Christ if they were to reject its legitimate teaching authority entrusted to Peter and his successors.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Jesus, Teaching, Heart

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• The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so gained is as real as that received through the operation of the five senses. I testify of this. . . . I urge you to continue throughout your lives to cultivate a heart in tune with the Spirit. If you do so, your lives will be enriched. You will feel a kinship with God our Eternal Father. You will taste the sweetness of joy that can be had in no other way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Real, Heart

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• I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Religion, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.121, Penguin

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• In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius can be understood in the end to be products of a cascade of generate-and-test procedures that are, at bottom, algorithmic and mindless.

  Daniel Dennett

  Beautiful, Order, Perfect

  "Cute, sexy, sweet, funny". TED conference, www.ted.com. 2009.

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