What is aesthetically beautiful, should not be able to be understood fully: by its mysterious character it should leave behind a vaguely pleasant feeling.
All who live possess eternal life, and few would trade it for an immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.
All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.
Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.
The thing no one understood about Gwendolyn Reese was that she was three ages at once: thirty chronologically, forty-five intellectually and fifteen experientially.
She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.
Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.
, . I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.
Why one enjoys maternal grandparents more than the paternal ones, i have never understood, but it was like that for me.
Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.
Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.
...We understood nothing at all. Not what it meant to wish for a miracle... nor its price.
Hitler had had entirely too brilliant a graphics department, and had understood the power of branding all too well.
When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.
Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.
My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.
I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.
I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.
