Comprehension Theme Quotes

#1. For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

Radha Mitchell

#2. I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'
'Station! Station!
your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Sometimes it was awesome to sit back and let another person take control. So long as they did really good, dirty, hot things to him.
- Matty

Leta Blake

#4. At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.

Jane Hirshfield

#5. Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

Lawrence Summers

#6. To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".

Ayn Rand

#7. Well, bless my soul, what stupid creatures one has to mix with in this world!

Knut Hamsun

#8. I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.

Ann Romney

#9. Where we are is vital to who we are,

Eric Weiner

#10. When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified.

Pearl Abraham

#11. One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.

William, Saroyan

#12. What you are or where you came from is not important. It is who you are and the choices you make, that determine who you will become. If you can look inward and be satisfied, the opinions of others should melt away.

J.D. Stroube

#13. You must learn to see men and women ... as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

Wallace D. Wattles