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“The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements. In extreme cases, it is sometimes heard that "this kata moves in 8 directions so it is designed for fighting 8 opponents" or some such nonsense.”

Wells Made Sometimes Moving Fighting Mistake Cases Heard Movement Understood Extremes Opponents Nonsense Interpretation

Author:Kenwa Mabuni

“I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Sometimes Lasts Born Mines One Day Understood Praise Affection Delight Sentences Immortality Understand Me True Family

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“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 parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.”

Ifs Sometimes Universe Stars Parent Understood Constant Fixed Spheres Sibling Celestial Dazzling Comets Scorching

Author:Alison Gopnik

“Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.”

Source: The Book of Guys: Stories

“Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."”

People Thinking Feels Sometimes Artist Hate Felt Enjoy Painting Understood Abstract Wow Cried Abstract Painting

Author:Jose Parla

“Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.”

Ifs Needs Children Sometimes Reason Knowing Sky Understood Asking Blue Complexes Including Claire Asking God

Author:Susan Meissner

“Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.”

“There's been more than one time when I've said something, and sort of the middle of what I've said is not said but thought, and therefore assumed to be understood, which is a ridiculous assumption on my part, but sometimes gets me in trouble.”

Said Sometimes Trouble Middle Understood Ridiculous Assumption One Time

Author:Howard Dean

“We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”

Thinking Feels Writing Littles Sometimes Speak Grows Bits Heard Mets Little Bit Expectations Understood Sells Expected Comparison Pale

Author:Lawrence Clark Powell

“Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.”

Ifs Sometimes Process Understood Gods Will Like Me Appreciated Braces

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“So what Jesus taught must be understood from the deepest level and that is one of the best sayings to show that he was talking in that way. In the book Revelations from Christ, I found out something that Yogananda said. That Jesus had said son of men and son of God, and people often misunderstand so sometimes the translations themselves are wrong for that reason. So when he said son of man he meant his human body and personality. When he said son of God, he meant the infinite Christ consciousness with which he'd obtained oneness.”

“Sometimes, the decisions have to be taken in minutes, even seconds, and there would be no time to make the right decision. We understood that this could have ended in catastrophe.”

Sometimes Would Be Decision Taken Minutes Understood Seconds Catastrophe Right Decision Make The Right Decision

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“I never did like the assertion of the "innate" inferiority or women or Blacks, and I understood that when people tried to talk that way, they were trying to "fix" a social reality into a natural necessity. And yet, sometimes we do need a language that refers to a basic, fundamental, enduring, and necessary dimension of who we are, and the sense of sexed embodiment can be precisely that.”

People Way Needs Trying Sometimes Reality Language Social Natural Understood Fundamentals Endure Who We Are Dimensions Innate Assertion Inferiority Embodiment

Author:Judith Butler

“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.”

Sometimes Reality Fiction Events Understood Pathetic

Book:I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

Source: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Littles I Can Ideas Sometimes Helping Feelings House Rooms Understood Eternity Corners What If Village Immense Spiders Baths Always Thinking Crime And Punishment

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

“We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.”

Feels Long Has Beens Self Sometimes Understood Long Ago

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.”

Heart Sometimes Eye Felt Behinds Bears Beats Understood Evidence Pressure Mad Blow Holes Impulse His Eyes Demon Temples Nerves Staggering

Author:Joe Hill

“It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a mystery. Sometimes I say I don't believe in God and Jesus and Mary. I'm a bad Catholic because I miss mass once in a while and I grumble when, at confession, I get a heavy penance for something I couldn't help doing. But good or bad, I am a Catholic and I'll never be anything else. Of course, I didn't ask to be born Catholic, no more than I asked to be born American. But I'm glad it turned out that I'm both these things.”

Want Believe Sometimes Helping Beautiful Courses Asks Jesus Wish Born Mystery Missing Mass Understood Catholic Don't Believe Heavy Glad Believe In God Mary Confession Penance

Author:Betty Smith

“He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening — I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.”

Littles Doe Said Sometimes Young Dies Father Minutes Understood Woods Dues Staring Visuals Countryside Evanescence Saddening English Countryside

Book:Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden

Source: Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden

“We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.”

People Knows Needs Made Said Sometimes Enough Feelings Felt Understood Arrangements

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.”

People Want Firsts Sometimes Helping Hands Felt Offers Understood Let Me Sorry Occasions Frustration Realised Helping Hand Pushed Away

Book:The Book of Tomorrow

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire”

People World Way Needs Sometimes Desire Expectations Understood Claims Raises

Author:Cinda Williams Chima

“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.”

“He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page was a hole into another world.”

Ifs World Way Sometimes Fall Pages Understood Holes Another World

Book:A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four

Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four

“So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.”

Sometimes Wanted Felt Boys Understood

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone.”

Real Sometimes Pain Lasts Enjoy Gone Understood Cherish Enjoy It While It Lasts

Book:While It Lasts

Source: While It Lasts

“Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.”

Needs Two Sometimes Mom Dad Understood My Dad My Mom Missions Broken Heart Funeral Spy Shields Two Days

Book:I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“I was overwhelmed. He understood me so well, how nervous I was about making this commitment, how frightening it was for me to become a princess. He was going to give me every last second he could and, in the meantime, lavish me with everything possible. I had another one of those moments when I couldn't believe this was all happening. "That's not fair, Maxon," I mumbled. "What in the world am I supposed to be able to give you?" He smiled. "All I want is your promise to stay with me, to be mine. Sometimes it feels like you can't possibly be real. Promise me you'll stay." "Of course, I promise.”

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