Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.
I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.
I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.
I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.
If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were your provenance. Dead, you had no provenance.
Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.
If you can admit that you haven't yet understood everything, faith can fill the emptiness in heart to confront the hesitation.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body...
I think there's just so many people in the world that don't feel understood, and when you hear a song and you go, 'Oh, that song understands me,' that's an amazing feeling. I get it when I listen to the radio... That's a beautiful part of music.
He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.
I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary.
You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.
He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.
When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, they are meant to be understood by you.
He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple swings of the bat, he cleared me another path.
'Lady Wisdom' is my wife and those I reach with Truth understood are my children". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
