Nonunderstanding Quotes & Sayings

Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other. — Thomas Sowell

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible. — Franz Kafka

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America. — Bernie Sanders

A minister may be diligent in his work, regular in his family, resident with his people and attentive to them, and in many respects exemplary in his outward conduct, and yet not preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified.32 — Tony Reinke

We all know the experience of sitting in bed feeling exhilarated one day and lackluster the very next. The issue is not whether we need to find a more fulfilling bed. — Alexandra Katehakis

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. — Ferdinand De Saussure

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it. — Clint Eastwood

While the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em. — Will Rogers

I am truly grateful: for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love - for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence ... And I'm grateful to know it exists in me, and I'm able to share it with so many people. — Maya Angelou

As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playback, and for them, I feel sorry. They are missing out. — Henry Rollins

It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone — Leigh Hunt

there was still a part of me that kept waiting for it all to go to hell. At least I'd stopped poking at it and trying to break it myself, that was a step up. Let's hear it for therapy and smart friends who intervened when I fell back into old destructive habits. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. — Thomas Bulfinch

You love who you love and that's who you love. — Skyla Madi