Quotes of: Greater-understanding Keyword

Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. “The world just changes,” he said. “The most overwhelming feeling was the incredible i...

Christopher Ryan

Edmond: If you ever presume to interfere in my affairs again, I will, I promise you, finish the job I started the day we met! Do you understand? Jacopo: I understand you are mad. Edmond: Mad? My enemies are falling into my traps perfectly! Jacopo: Ma...

The Count of Monte Cristo

Cornelius Fudge: As the Minister of Magic, it is my duty to inform you, Mr. Potter, that earlier this evening your uncle's sister was located a little south of Sheffield, circling a chimney stack. The Accidental Magic Reversal department was dispatch...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

[Frawley interviews Claire after the robbery] FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: I understand they threatened you? Claire Keesey: Uhmm. One of them took my licence. FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: Did you try and escape at any point? Claire Keesey: No. FBI S.A. Adam Fraw...

The Town

Let me make it clear. There will be no repeat of that night. Absolutely not! Not ever, do you understand?” "Who are you trying to convince, Tessnia? Me or you?

Chaysing Dreams

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Cayl replies...I understand the human reproductive system, Agent Denning; I’m here to capture a killer, not indulge in these intrusive human senses.

Collective Memory

No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.

Contact

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

Crime and Punishment

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Corcitura

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

Cannery Row

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

Criticism and Reviews

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

The Commanding Self

I don't have the time or the energy to hate,' says Shara. 'I only wish to understand. People are what they are.

City of Stairs

The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guarded.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

The Diary of Adam and Eve

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

Darkest England

Take the time first to understand who you are and everything else will fall into place.

Define Yourself and become the architect of your future

Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the easiest and fastest way to proceed.

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

Dark Moon