Understand Quotes
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And I felt so foreign, lying there, the wind howling outside our window. What was I doing here? Who was Rafe, really? Can you just put a part of yourself on hold? And if you do, does it cease to be true? Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.
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Life: I'll never understand it.
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When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
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We almost always forgive those we understand.
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I understand men much better than most women I know.
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons.
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By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.
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I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
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The war is singing its last verse, and it requires every effort from all who would call themselves men. You will understand that, won’t you?
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Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?
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My words are very easy to understand and very easy to practice; but there is no one in the world who is able to understand and practice them.
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That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character.
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But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
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The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.
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It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused
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Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.
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Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them.
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The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
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As you get older you'll understand that it's not about what you look like or what you own, it's all about the person you've become.
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It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes.
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It was scary having that sort of power over a girl. You could hurt her in ways you might never understand.
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But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
