Quotes of: Understanding Keyword

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

Anna Karenina

Love has no meaning without understanding

The Art of Mindful Living: How to Bring Love, Compassion, and Inner Peace Into Your Daily Life

You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.

The Alchemist

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Confession is good for the soul, they say. I'd imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand--too damning.

Another Little Piece

I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.

William H. Hunt

A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.

House Rules

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The Happy Prince and Other Stories

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

The Innocents Abroad

We always stay on the optimal path, when we practice the power of allowance. Allow everything to happen the way it does. Respond to everything with love and understanding.

I Am

This was never about the money... Don't you understand? A world without good art is a far more dangerous place than one you don't get paid for making it in.

Ink Bleeder

You can't understand beauty without peace of mind and you can't get close to the truth without fear.

The Iraqi Christ

(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

The Ice-Shirt

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

Identical

Don’t you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies…

If All the Rebels Die

Ain't nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can't understand her. Love her. That's all you gotta do.

Into the Free

I’m a virgin, okay?” There was a moment of silence while I assume he was struggling to understand the connection. Then he spoke. “I’m not prejudiced against anyone.

The Innocent: A Myth

He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done over the course of the day.

Inheritance

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

Interview with the Vampire