He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.
And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.
...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.
They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?
He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.
An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I’m afraid to say, has been understood.
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature
The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God's mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.
I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Growing up in Beirut, I used to go to the souks with my mother to buy fabrics... I understood fashion at an early age, and my first designs were when I was five.
I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illu...
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System. The visual aspect can't be understood without understanding the system. It isn't what it looks like but what it is that is of basic importance.
Anna read and understood, but it was unpleasant to read, that is to say, to follow the reflection of other people's lives. She was too eager to live herself.
The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.
