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“Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.”

Stills Feelings Desire Felt Natural Strange Comfortable News Understood Skins Envy Senses Vanity Enjoyed Scar Dirt Intriguing Still In Love New Feelings

Author:Jim Morrison

“I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells May Stills Government Christian Courses Games Term Willing Understood Forgiving Patient Leaving Available Surrender Cards Repentance

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety.”

Ifs Way Want Needs Feels May Littles Stills Understood Okay Safety Assuming Driving Vulnerable Bridges Pounds Vehicle Inches Truck Margins Canyons Grand Canyon Crevice

Author:Warren Buffett

“As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.”

Stills Self Order Understood Stones Importance Wide Forests Branches Comment Mike Conceit Owl Scribbles Secluded

Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday

Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday

“In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.”

Mind Said Stills Matter Form Process Difficult Term Clear Understood Prejudice Separation Trials Experiments Substance Routine Formulas Daring Phases Alchemist Noir Dissolution

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.”

Thinking World Want Humans Stills Important Hard Use Wanted Mother Choices Fighting Easy Human Beings Taken Talent Understood Feminist Grandmother My Grandmother Reservations

Author:Erica Jong

“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. Or they enlarge a reality that is felt to be shrunk, hollowed out, perishable, remote. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images.”

Way Stills Reality Felt Photography Understood Photograph Possessed Inaccessible Recalcitrant

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.”

Mind Stills Ideas Soul Beautiful Form Values Beauty Cases Shapes Understood Perfection Shining Mere Admire Shells Pearls Covering Loveliness Shining Through

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like "How are we going to get through this?”

Knows Years Stills Two Different Hard Three Heard Months Understood Unions Broke Hard Times Peter Three Months Broke Up

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo”

Way Long Stills Hard Remember Reading Imagine Blood Understood Manage Necks Imagine That Economist Adequate Zoos Pumps Giraffe

Author:Robert Solow

“I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .”

Stills Reason School Understood Hated Spells Disability Dyslexia Learning Disability

Author:Loretta Young

“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.”

“Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.”

“I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in print, all those movies are still out there, the audience gets younger. So I don't have that "I've got to do one thing before I die." I did it.”

Persons Stills Book Dies Audience One Thing Understood Tragic Print Before I Die

Author:John Waters

“I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.”

Looks Stills Dream Eye Moving Speak Process Half Understood Fearful

Author:Moss Hart

“There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.”

Ifs Heart Stills Spirit Belief Nations Simple My Heart Projects Understood Optimism Cups Tea Leap Idealism Soar Frustrating Contradictory Cups Of Tea Oratory

Book:Stephen Fry in America

Source: Stephen Fry in America

“A period romance film with elements of horror. That was successful, because I feel like Coppola's DRACULA was one or the other. You know? It was never scary it was never a film he got invested in the romance of the characters. He understood it, but he never got invested. So it as a challenge for me to see if I could do that, I still don't know how audiences will sort of react to that.”

Ifs Knows Feels Stills Character Film Romance Challenges Audience Know How Successful Periods Horror Elements Understood Scary If I Could

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Once we got to the space where we understood that we have the most important thing in the world in common; no one else shared that commonality. Our son is priceless, and in order to give him the best, we have to be better to each other. Although we are still divorced, we still call each other "family." It was a journey to get there, but it's a beautiful place to be.”

World Want Giving Stills Important Beautiful Order Space Common Journey Son Husband Understood Important Things Divorce My Husband Bitterness Divorced Priceless Beautiful Places Commonality

Author:Regina King

“The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.”

Men Children Stills Lying Dies Wonder He Man Understood Cease Complaints Sense Of Wonder

Author:Anais Nin

“Me writing the book and the subsequent interactions that we had were actually the cap on that experience. We were still in this weird purgatory about it when I published the book. When I gave them the galleys and what ensued after that, then I understood a lot more about our relationships and what the experience meant to them. I'd never wanted to know what they thought about it at all.”

Knows Writing Stills Book Wanted Understood Interaction Our Relationship Caps Purgatory

Author:Melissa Febos

“If I completely understood what was going on and I understood these songs, they wouldn't make sense to play live anymore. They're still enigmatic for me. I'm still searching in the songs as they are. That's what's actually been the most fun about playing and touring for me is that there's still a lot of caverns in the songs where you can go and hide out different nights.”

Ifs Stills Different Play Night Song Fun Understood Make Sense Touring Enigmatic Caverns

Author:Justin Vernon

“I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It also includes the recognition of the value of democracy. When we speak about social justice, it means that freedom should be used not only in the interest of profit but also in the interest of the advancement of the people who create all values.”

People Should Mean Stills Ideas Used Values Speak Social Interest Justice Principles Democracy Understood Social Justice Profit Committed Recognition Socialist Advancement

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that's a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who knows?”

Ifs Knows Needs Wells Stills Problem Together Universe Understood This Day Gravity Quantum Mechanic Quantum Mechanics

Author:Edward Boyden

“I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.”

Thinking Way Children Stills Father Policy Politician Understood India Blind Obsessive Blind Faith

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.”

Feels Stills Use Today Natural Cases Grew Grew Up Understood Universal Familiar Landscape Biblical Vocabulary Landmarks

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people.”

People Wells Has Beens Stills Understood Safety Autism Echoes Tested Confusing Vaccines Allegations

Author:Bill Gates

“My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.”

Stills Important Inspiration Age Young Community Growing Up Growing Mom Understood Tables Cooking My Mom Cooks Birthday Young Age Back And Forth Banter Portuguese

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.”

Stills Desire Literature Understood Educated Classic Desire To Learn

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.”

Heart Stills Quiet Understood Quiet Heart

Author:Steve Martin

“His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.”

Littles Stills Whole Body Dies Understood Angel Wings Liars Fluttering When Someone Dies

Book:The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories

Source: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God & Other Stories

“I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.”

Long Stills Names Lost Tomorrow Understood Stranger Yesterday Yesterday And Tomorrow

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.”

Stills Found Figures Understood

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable hunger for more of it, though she hadn't understood why. Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world. The apple tree was still nice to lie near. They peony, for its scent, also fine. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within.”

World Way Stills Hard Running Young Lying Boys Path Nice Tree Fine Understood Hunger Woods Breathe Apples Scent Insatiable Apple Trees Cacophony Why Now Peonies Insatiable Hunger

Author:David Wroblewski

“Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.”

Stills Real Moments Dream Lasts Past Humanity Difficult Hours Accepting Conditions Tomorrow Truth Is Ambition Understood Endure Focused Yesterday Waking Evident

Book:The Taking: A Novel

Source: The Taking: A Novel

“He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart.”

“She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.”

World Stills Feelings Understood Phones Email Fax

Book:Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“Too bad the freedom seemed like a prison. As his boots hit the mosaic floor at the bottom of the stairs, John Mellencamp's old-school, bic-lighter anthem echoed in his head-and though he'd always like the song okay, he'd never truly understood what it meant. Kind of wished that were still the case. Life goes on...long after the thrill of living is gone.”

Kind Long Stills School Song Cases Gone Goes On Understood Okay Prison Bottom Boots Thrill Stairs Lighters Old School Life Goes On Anthem Mosaics

Book:Lover Mine: Number 8 in series

Source: Lover Mine: Number 8 in series

“You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one they were doomed. You wish they understood that there is joy in this fact, greater joy and love in just this one last moment than they experienced in the entirety of their lives. Because even in this last moment there is still Everything, whole galaxies and eons, the sum total of every experience across time, shrunk to the head of a pin, theirs for the asking, right here, right now. And so anything, anything, anything is possible.”

Stills Two Whole Moments Facts Lasts Joy Wish Greater Right Now Understood And Love Asking Cells Doomed Galaxy Pins Anything Is Possible Entirety

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I understood all that in my head, but I still didn‟t believe it in my heart.”

Believe Heart Stills My Heart Understood

Book:If I Stay

Source: If I Stay

“Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.”

Stills My Own Cry Understood Deserve Pity Shaking

Book:Little Bee: A Novel

Source: Little Bee: A Novel

“Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.”

World Stills Stories Spirit Natural Praying Understood Empty Invisible Forests Irrational Natural World Predecessors Making Up

Book:Pretties

Source: Pretties

“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

“If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.”

Ifs Way Heart Stills Faces Felt Understood

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.”

Knows Men World May Stills Moments Left This World Understood Beloved Bliss Contemplation Search For Meaning Mans Search For Meaning Brief Moments

Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.”

Thinking World Looks Stills Ends Happens Care Lasts Understood Saved Glorious Sunset Loan Frodo Shire Last Stand

Book:Among Others

Source: Among Others

“There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.”

May Said Stills Understood Mercy I Realized Oath Arches Gaelic

Book:The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.”

Years Has Beens Stills Use Understood Quantum Mechanic Appreciated Calculations Quantum Mechanics

Author:Stephen Hawking

“As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.”

Source: Poems

“It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow unique and precious to the universe, in some obscure corner of my mind I wanted the others to love me and make exceptions for me simply because I felt heat and cold, pain and loneliness as they did. Now this was gone once and for all, and I understood there were no exceptions and on one was invulnerable, we all had to share the same conditions and in the end this was simply mortality, the mortality of things as well as ourselves. After that I didn't expect anybody to love me.”

“I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.”

Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan