Quotes 41 till 60 of 118.
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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.
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In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.
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In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
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In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.
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It's understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it's always great television.
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.
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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
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