Quotes of: Understanding Keyword

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

Love Warps the Mind a Little

Once you understand love, you don’t need a reward your kindness or compassion just like you don’t need a reward for breathing.

The Love Mindset

You are like the kid who even cannot understand the different between a kiss on the cheek and a kiss on the lips; simple and devoted unlike the rest of the world.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

Who tries to sabotage my time and priority in life can never understand the sensible, best choices of my heart.

Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

The Last Four Things

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Lavinia

When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

Leaders' Watchwords

What is necessary, he explains, is an understanding that the youth are not the Other. It is being able to see your humanity reflected in them.

Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth

No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.

MILA 2.0

I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

The Mark of Athena

I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I mean, I can understand not being as pricey as Percy or Jason, maybe... but am I worth, like, two Franks, or three Franks?

The Mark of Athena

Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.

The Magnificent Ambersons

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy: Latin America in the Third Millennium

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you.

A Separate Peace

You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

Splintered

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

The Sun Watches the Sun

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery