#understand

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that. ↗

— Jill Dando

#friends #go #how #like #limit

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ↗

— Anthony Hope

#generally #misunderstand #people #promoting #telling

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#aristocracy #backyard #books #english #long

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! ↗

— Harry Hopkins

#damn #dumb #dumb people #excellent #foreign

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#beautiful #easy #england #italy #living

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ↗

— Eleonora Duse

#blade #blue #fields #fills #grass

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bigger #deal #great #great deal #i

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#great #hands #poet #understand #us

I can always forgive where I understand. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#understanding #forgiveness

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

#avoid #before #called #conform #conformity