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“You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.”

Thinking Might Pieces Understood Make You Happy Duran Duran

Author:Nick Rhodes

“We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door and reflect upon the relentless and yet benevolent forces of Mother Nature. The laws of nature are relentless. They can never be disobeyed without exacting a penalty. Yet they are benevolent, for when they are understood and obeyed, nature yields up the abundance that blesses those who understand and obey.”

Wells Home Might Law Mother Force Nature Walks Doors Fields Understood Abundance Bless Yield Shelter Penalties Laws Of Nature Relentless Mother Nature Benevolent Barns

Author:Wheeler McMillen

“All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.”

Might Understood Wicked

Book:The Space Between

Source: The Space Between

“It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.”

“It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.”

Ifs Years Sometimes Hard Might Past Life Is Situation Tears Understood Luck Fortune Reverse Nevertheless Good Fortune Good Luck Never Change

Author:Merle Shain

“If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.”

Ifs Humans Might Human Beings Mistake History Stupid Understood Cease Stupid Mistake

Book:Prelude to Foundation

Source: Prelude to Foundation

“Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.”

“Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.”

Source: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

“Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.”

Ifs Men Writing May Might Happens Speak Grows Sound Reader Periods Understood Advantage Notion Sentences Every Man Ease Consideration Sentiments Elegant Transfers

Book:The Idler: With Additional Essays

Source: The Idler: With Additional Essays

“Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a revolutionary capitalist instead of a revolutionary socialist.”

Wisdom Might Politics Principles Economy Understood Appearance Revolutionary Liberalism Capitalist Socialist Distribution Implications

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger.”

Men Wells Reason Shows Feelings Might Impossible Understood Argument Pressure Fingers Spread Resistance Enthusiasm Distinction Endeavor Combat Elude

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

“U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.”

Might Action Courses Goal Security Policy Degrees Understood Fairs International Privilege Primaries Protected Preservation Fifth Exploits Accuracy

Book:The Culture of Terrorism

Source: The Culture of Terrorism

“The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.”

World Persons Long Has Beens Might Understood Forgiven Might Have Been Affront

Author:Jo Coudert

“An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.”

Ifs Men Firsts May Real Shows Might Religion Dies Successful He Man Understood Madness Warm Operations Description

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Ideas Might Sides Air Minutes Please Directors Understood Boring Smell Intimidating Hurtful

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.”

Thinking Hands Might Products Understood Islam Instance Globalization Hand In Hand Tribalism Globalism

Author:Franklin Foer

“Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.”

Facts Might Photography Understood Function Be Good Uncertainty Inventor

Author:John Szarkowski

“I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.”

People Ifs Way Years Might Felt Audience Struggle Disease Understood Evidence Addiction Decades Contrary Recovery Despite Heartbreaking Stigma

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.”

Ifs Needs May Might Trouble Understood Interpretation

Author:Ry Cooder

“If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there are only a few living people in that frame, all sorts of interesting and difficult technical problems arise. And then form - new form, or experimental form - might be understood as just trying to tell that story most movingly and efficiently.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Ideas Stories Problem Might Form Night Difficult Interesting Understood Arise Graveyard

Author:George Saunders

“We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.”

Ifs Self Might Moving Path Style Self Esteem Emotional Perception Understood Obstacles Practicals Esteem Sense Of Self Personal Style

Book:The Truth About Style

Source: The Truth About Style

“Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.”

Wells Might Generations Amount Understood Eras Reasonable Funeral Sibling Victorian Victorian Era Previous Generations

Author:Terry Pratchett

“There was a time before I felt I was a real writer, when I was a yarn spinner and I just wanted to tell story until it was over. But then there came a time where I was like, 'No, I want to understand something through writing this that I might have not understood before. I want people to come away with something to think about.'”

People Thinking Want Writing Real Stories Might Wanted Felt Understood Yarn Spinner

Author:Joss Whedon

“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”

Art Might Form Lying Felt Understood Argument Inaccessible

Book:What Is Art?

Source: What Is Art?

“the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.”

Ends Whole Seems Might Lasts Existence Understood Endure Sentences Glorious Copies Dictation

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

“In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Years Body Might Pain Felt Prayer Talking Heard Understood Years Ago Eternity Died Oneself Spots Loved Ones Castles

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books, and so didn't waste their time with them. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing, I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.”

Ifs World Writing Believe Littles Book Might Age Able Values Black White Consciousness Bears Waste Paper Understood Mark Charm Significance Rainbow Persist Jars Bracelet White Paper

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.”

Self Might Past Missing Understood Conscience Mark Speed Pity Bullets Momentum Playwright Despised Self Pity Forward Momentum

Author:James Ellroy

“The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.”

“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.”

Knows Wells Book Might Hate Sea Land Reader Safe Messages Understood Notes Bottles Publishing Misinterpreted Hurling

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang out over shuttered whitewashed houses, where we understood nothing of the language and where no one knew our identities.”

Source: A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

“I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.”

Thinking World Made Feelings Might Understood Excited Handle Rushing Old World Puzzled

Book:Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

“My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.”

Firsts Has Beens Might Able Wanted Boys Happened Summer Understood Hardest My Sister Might Have Been

Book:That Summer

Source: That Summer

“Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.”

Thinking Might Possibility Understood Blessed Extraordinary

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear anything more than death? Everything else offered moments of escape: a paralyzed man could still read Dickens; a man in the grips of dementia might have flashes of the must absurd beauty.”

People Men Said Stills Moments Might Understood Terror Absurd Flash Minors Spiders Public Speaking Dickens Dementia Paralyzed Greatest Fear

Author:David Benioff

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

Knows Looks Art Hard Might Wanted Needed Understood Crisis Starting Angle Garbage Know Yourself

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when he said he felt God’s presence? Steve supposed he could ask Pastor Harris directly, but he doubted that would do any good. How could anyone explain such a thing? It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.”

Heart Mean Said Might Would Be Asks Felt Answers Color Birth Understood Concepts Blind Mysterious Pastor Describing Doubted God's Presence

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it might have understood.”

Might Brain Understood Stomach Assault

Author:Tammara Webber

“It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.”

Might Would Be Color Birth Understood Concepts Blind Mysterious Describing God's Presence

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.”

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Book:Undoing Gender

Source: Undoing Gender

“...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reach your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her.”

People Feelings Might Pain Grows Limits Degrees Ordinary Understood Spread Scales Trapped Spills Sideways

Author:Kristin Cashore

“The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.”

Real Self Might Spiritual Life Is Suffering Path Dangerous Taught Understood Roots Attractive Poison Toxic Psychics Arrows Spiritual Path Organic Life

Author:Gary Snyder

“Finally, I understood what else was going on. I might be slow, but given time, I put the pieces together. "You have no reason to be jealous, I promise. We talked... and trained. You're the only boy who gets close like this." "Oh." A long, slow breath escaped him. "I feel so stupid." I put my lips to his cheek and whispered, "Don't. I love you, Fade.”

Feels Long Reason Might Together Given Boys Pieces Love You Stupid Promise Understood Breaths Lips No Reason Jealous Fades Cheeks I Promise Being Jealous

Book:The Razorland Trilogy

Source: The Razorland Trilogy

“A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.”

Ifs Knows Children Ideas Real Might Conditions Loneliness Birth Understood Lonely Blind Academic Blindness Being Lonely

Book:It

Source: It

“And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.”

People Ifs Knows Persons Self Might Turns Felt Understood Fraud Alienation Loathing Away From You Self Loathing True Person

Book:The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day

Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day

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