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Quote Left I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. Quote Right
Quote Left The present-day mentality, more perhaps than that of people in the past, seems opposed to a God of mercy, and in fact tends to exclude from life and to remove from the human heart the very idea of mercy. The word and the concept of 'mercy' seem to cause uneasiness in man, who, thanks to the enormous development of science and technology, never before known in history, has become master of the earth and has subdued and dominated it. This dominion over the earth, sometimes understood in a one-sided and superficial way, seems to leave no room for mercy.... Quote Right
Quote Left When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of ''happiness'' has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. Quote Right
Quote Left His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Quote Right
Quote Left Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues. Quote Right
Quote Left Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and thought I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains and have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil: rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endueth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. Now abideth faith, hope and love. These three; but the greatest of these is love.(I Corinthians 13) Quote Right
Quote Left It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. Quote Right
Quote Left The result of what Kennedy did can be understood by analogy. It is as if he created a building named, 'A man on the moon in ten years,' and inside the building he put offices for all the various ideas, positions, notions and people that had to do with space flight. The first office inside the front door of the building in 1961 would have been called, 'it can't be done.' This office would have been inhabited by the skeptics and the cynics.A content or position is threatened by any opposite position. Given two opposing positions, only one can survive. On the other hand, a context gives space to, it literally allows, it even encourages, positions that are apparently the opposite. In fact, the most important position in a newly-created context is the position which appears to oppose the context. Quote Right
Quote Left The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season). Quote Right
Quote Left There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic. Quote Right
Quote Left The great men among the ancients understood very well how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state, and thought it no lessening to their dignity to make the one the recreation to the other. That indeed which seems most generally to have employed and diverted their spare hours, was agriculture. Gideon among the Jews was taken from threshing, as well as Cincinnatus amongst the Romans from the plough, to command the armies of their countries...and, as I remember, Cyrus thought gardening so little beneath the dignity and grandeur of a throne, that he showed Xenophon a large field of fruit trees all of his own planting . . . Delving, planting, inoculating, or any the like profitable employments would be no less a diversion than any of the idle sports in fashion, if men could be brought to delight in them. Quote Right
Quote Left A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant. Quote Right
Quote Left Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. Quote Right
Quote Left Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. Quote Right
Quote Left Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Quote Right
Quote Left Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. Quote Right
Quote Left There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood. Quote Right
Quote Left Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish -- even I (I say) if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It was no wonder the fishers had not understood me. The wonder was rather that they had ever guessed my pitiful illusion, and taken the trouble to come back. I had starved with cold and hunger on that island for close upon one hundred hours. But for the fishers, I might have left my bones there, in pure folly. And even as it was, I had paid for it pretty dear, not only in past sufferings, but in my present case; being clothed like a beggar-man, scarce able to walk, and in great pain of my sore throat. I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first. Quote Right
Quote Left 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 where I have not shared and probably will not share. Quote Right
Quote Left Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does. Quote Right
Quote Left The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. Quote Right
Quote Left The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others. Quote Right
Quote Left I’m so naïve about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realised I didn’t understand, she had to explain: “That’s like three Mercedes.' Then I understood. Quote Right
Quote Left May the road be free for the journey, May it lead where it promised it would, May the stars that gave ancient bearings Be seen, still be understood May every aircraft fly safely, May every traveler be found, May sailors in crossing the ocean Not hear the cried of the drowned May gardens be wild, like jungles, May nature never be tamed, May dangers create of us heroes, May fears always have names, May the mountains stand to remind us, Of what it mean to be young May we be outlived by our daughters, May we be outlived by our sons May the bombs rust away in the bunkers, And the doomsday clock not be rewound May the solitary scientists, working Remember the holes in the ground May the knife remain in the holder, May the bullet stay in the gun, May those who live in the shadows Be seen by those in the sun Quote Right
Quote Left Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States , potentially against American citizens . I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused. Quote Right
Quote Left Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it, Quote Right
Quote Left As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal? Quote Right
Quote Left If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths. Quote Right
Quote Left Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it. Quote Right
Quote Left 1 Corinthians 13:12: For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. (NIV)

For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God]. (AMP)

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. (KJV)

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Quote Left I Love You, is sacred. Even if not understood intellectually, consciously, the heart knows its profound implication. The words will not sincerely be uttered, unless the soul of one's being is fully, eternally committed. Quote Right
Quote Left Poetry should be felt, rather than understood. In other words, a poem should make the reader feel something—not by telling them what to feel, but by evoking feeling directly. Quote Right
Quote Left One day we all die. All that remains are the photos and memories. Perhaps a person could write it all down and leave something of themselves behind; their thoughts, their memories. And in their written thoughts, perhaps "Love" is eventually understood and found. One day we all die. We all die one day. I shall ghost with the best of them ... a very ghostly ghost.(LadyLabyrinth/Leanne Lovejoy-Burton) Quote Right
Quote Left One day we all die. All that remains are the photos and memories. Perhaps a person could write it all down and leave something of themselves behind; their thoughts, their memories. And in their written thoughts, perhaps "Love" is eventually understood and found. One day we all die. We all die one day. I shall ghost with the best of them ... a very ghostly ghost.(LadyLabyrinth/Leanne Lovejoy-Burton) Quote Right
Quote Left All mornings are good, it is just our mood. The world would be fine if, only, we understood. mbfarookh Quote Right
Quote Left Kindness is a language understood by all, transcending all barriers; speak it often and fluently. - Aloo Denish Obiero Quote Right
Quote Left - Horse, Winged * A symbol of the Aspiring Higher Mind "By the Winged Horse, Pegasus, the Ancients understood the intellect of the Truth by which Wisdom is Attained. By the hoofs of his feet, the experiences through which the natural intelligence comes" -Swedenborg Quote Right
Quote Left What do we know of God, or surmise? Aware of everything, infinite beyond time and space as generally understood. Omnipotent, no need to duplicate anything exactly, seemingly obsessed with our individuality, yet with a definite preference toward Pure Love -- His self-essence proliferating endlessly. Quote Right
Quote Left The will of man is rarely understood ... forged & chiseled between fires of damnation and salvation, tempered by loss and the shadow of time. Quote Right
Quote Left Unconditional love our parents show us as we grow it's not completely understood until it's our turn to take care of them. Quote Right
Quote Left They have not understood that war brings only death, not glory. Putin has the wisdom of a madman. Zelensky fights him with the weapons Biden sends him. Can he understand that Ukraine will be reduced to dust when he'll have no weapons left? Quote Right
Quote Left Is time and individual event, a communal event or both? It is both, since individual time line does change constantly through our decisions. Communal time lines is when we collectively decide to change the course of an event. As you see, time is not isolated on our decisions but it is incorporated in each of us. It is understood that we are connected to one another through not only time but through planes of existence. We Create our own reality. Quote Right
Quote Left A poets desire is to be understood through the essence of a rhyme. His words are yesterdays memories borrowed from the passing of time. Quote Right
Quote Left Trust is so small word, but meaning can be understood, love is too shorter than trust, but meaning? Quote Right
Quote Left Reality is often misunderstood Quote Right
Quote Left 10. Poetry is ink blotted, soul driven splashes that cry to be read, beg to be understood and unabashedly sings to give to its readers. Robert J. Lindley Quote Right
Quote Left It’s understood when poetry is in the blood nothing can stop the flood of words that rush, into the hearts and into the minds of poets everywhere, one finds. Quote Right
Quote Left When a poem emerges from a poet’s pen it feels so good, and it’s hoped the message is understood. Quote Right
Quote Left Thoughts doesn't need to be perfect or logical it just need to be understood . Quote Right
Quote Left for me depression is confusion, the inability to process events information or emotions, with my confusion understood the depression died too Quote Right
Quote Left We move like pawns on a chessboard. Take one step forward or make a diagonal cut to change the path. Life, a game played by many but fully understood by some, if any. Still trying to understand the chessboard. Quote Right
Quote Left I have since learnt to appreciate that my own mind has far greater superiors; where it cannot match the quickness of others, it leaves room for amazement. You see, if I knew more, and misunderstood less, I would be underwhelmed every time. How boring I should think it. Quote Right
Quote Left "The best writing is understood." Quote Right
Quote Left "If our children understood the correlation between college graduation, and the money they will potentially be able to make upon the completion of a degree, we might be able to sell them on more school." Quote Right
Quote Left "Confined behind iron bars and mortar, lonesome thoughts are understood in every language." Quote Right
Quote Left Poetry is not just the purgation of emotions in writing or in spoken words. It is an art, something similar to a technical trade that has to be learnt practically and understood frantically. That is what makes a good poet. Each word, each verse and each stanza have their own significance, and they must be used to grace the beauty that comes with the idealism in the poem Quote Right
Quote Left There are two categories of old people. Those who got old because of what time did to them. And those who got old because of what they did with time. First just got old. Second who spent their time trying to learn things, to understand the world, looked for meaning and did things that they considered meaningful got old too but they took advantage of time in transcendental way and bent it. They learned something and they understood that the knowledge has eternal power. Quote Right
Quote Left "Complicated me Am I just a misunderstood person or am I just hard to understand" Quote Right
Quote Left a faithful mind had never understood the maze of nature Quote Right
Quote Left so called marriage a hypocrisy but glorified one love is misunderstood questioned people don't love still together for arrangements such are cowards,spare the Hypocrisy,refuse to be the part of this ugly fantasy, surely there is real marriage in heaven somewhere based on faith and love like devotion Quote Right
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