Understand Quotes
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Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No, it certainly doesn't." "I ain't parting from you again," I say, still looking at our fingers. "Not even in my head.
Patrick Ness
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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
Rumi
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I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
Nicholas Sparks
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It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.
Arthur Dove
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All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that. I like to switch gears a lot, and I like this kind of sloppy attitude.
Oneohtrix Point Never
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A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.
Auguste Renoir
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If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.
R. K. Milholland
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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
Rudyard Kipling
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No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.
Mike Tyson
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Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
Marianne Williamson
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Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
Grace Slick Starship
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As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.
Charles Dickens
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We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
Lao Tzu
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There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.
Kate Morton
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We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
Albert Einstein
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I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
Flannery O'Connor
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It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William Faulkner
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I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
Donald Miller
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
Agnes Denes
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
John Stuart Mill
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The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
Amado Nervo
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
Al Pacino