George Santayana Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Silence is my dignity.
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
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I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
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Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
