Understandably Define Quotes & Sayings

Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. — Alexander Pope

There is no room for a complainer in a universe of law, and worry is soul-suicide. By your very attitude of mind you are strengthening the chains which bind you, and are drawing about you the darkness by which you are enveloped, Alter your outlook upon life, and your outward life will alter. — James Allen

I know you want me, Jenner," Bria said in a breathy tone. "Why don't you do something about it? — Kate Baxter

I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee. — Mark Neumann

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us. — Madeleine Albright

It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in. — Alexander Skarsgard

Relius lay alone with his thoughts. What kind of man, he wondered, referred to himself as "safely dead"? — Megan Whalen Turner

This must be Aleppo. Nothing to see, of course. Just a long, poor-lighted platform with loud furious altercations in Arabic going on somewhere. Two men below her window were talking French. — Agatha Christie

In the middle of this journey, we lose a bit of ourselves. We do not know where we are or where we're headed. We look for directions, seek for guidance, and if we're lucky, we find it without too much time lost. And if we're truly lucky, we gain our whole selves back, with an ounce of wisdom on top. — Joanne Crisner

The young don't know what age is, and the old forget what youth was. — Seumas MacManus

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there."
"Yes it was." Idris doesn't say that the real culture shock has been in coming back. — Khaled Hosseini

I repel all guys. Now I have proof. PROOF.
Wait till Jenna hears. Maybe I need a different deodorant?
She ran her tongue over her teeth. Or toothpaste? — Anne Eliot