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They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.


Janet Frame


#accepted #could #deciding #divisions #easy

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.


Anatole Broyard


#disturbed #greater #having #misunderstanding #misunderstood

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.


James Buchan


#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.


Mahatma Gandhi


#amusement #applied #idle #instrument #most

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.


Joseph Campbell


#every #facts #gets #interpreting #metaphorically

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.


Jane Campion


#considered #england #enthusiasms #felt #friendship

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.


Alexis Carrel


#broadest #broadest sense #comprehending #instrument #knowledge

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.


Johann Gottlieb Fichte


#man #me #only #understand #understood

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.


Mary Cheney


#by the time #different #high #high school #i

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.


Gene Tierney


#departure #described #hollywood #i #understood