I Finally Understand Quotes

#1. When the warden appeared outside their cell, he ogled Regin's bared midriff. Gross. Whenever men leered at her, Regin tended to leer back. She canted her head on the floor, turning it one way, then the other. I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

Kresley Cole

#2. I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.
Regin

Kresley Cole

#3. Yes, he said, taking her hand. And now I think I finally understand that old expression - a sight for sore eyes.

Justin Somper

#4. All I want is for someone to understand me before I die. With death staring me in the face, I finally understand the reason novelists write books: before they die they want somebody, somewhere, to understand them.

Natsuo Kirino

#5. I finally understand. Cancer is not a gypsy curse. It's a huge smashing wave. It catches you and drags you out. And anybody can be spit back up, and anybody can drown. -The Lucky Place

Zu Vincent

#6. The way I feel about you, it's like I finally understand what Lionel Richie is singing about. I mean, what we have, it's like movie love.

Maggie Wheeler

#7. I finally understand what it means to find that someone who is everything to you. Once you've found that kind of love, you must hold on to it-no matter what or who gets in the way. - Princess Diana

Christopher Andersen

#8. I finally understand, I wasn't waiting to kill people, I was waiting to be killed ... by a man like you ...

Raymond Benson

#9. I finally understand that it's okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

Jen Kirkman

#10. One of the strongest feelings you can get in life
one of the most rewarding feelings
is the feeling of an "Aha, I finally understand."

Penn Jillette

#11. You and I aren't going to spend our lives together," Jesse says. "But I finally understand that that doesn't take away any of the beauty of the fact that we were right for each other once.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#12. There's no way to know who I would have been if my life had taken a different path. Speculation is a waste of time. Looking back, I finally understand why they happened. I now believe that things happen for a reason. I am exactly where I'm supposed to be at this moment.

A.M. Madden

#13. I think I finally understand why God went away and left the world to destroy itself.

Blake Crouch

#14. I flourished because of him. He made me feel alive. I finally understand how love feels alike!

Lily Amis

#15. I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.

Lisa See

#16. And I finally understand what she needs to hear and that she's talking about not just me but Elf too and I tell her that my sorrow was not created by her, that my childhood was a joyful thing, an island in the sun, that her mothering is impeccable, that she is not to blame.

Miriam Toews

#17. One star breaks off from the others, shooting across the sky, a bright light trailing behind it, and I finally understand why people wish on dying stars. Because something always has to die for life to give birth to a new dream.

Kimberly Kinrade

#18. I finally understand what it's like to be truly awake, and I never ever want to go back to sleep again.

Donna Cooner

#19. I open my eyes. That's when I discover what that wailing sound was. My mouth wasn't frozen shut after all. When I finally understand why Aidan and Lucio sounded like they were arguing from miles away: I was straining to hear them over the sound of my own voice. This whole time I've been screaming.

Paige McKenzie

#20. I do not NEED a man. That was an impossible thought when I married John thirty years ago. It was unimaginable even seven years ago. I finally understand why lasting love has eluded me: the relationship I've been searching for all along was with myself.

Shary Hauer

#21. I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

Tupac Shakur

#22. Once I finally understand the immensity of my own impoverishment, I am finally in a position to see the enormity of God's majesty.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. I feel like I finally understand how family love is. Tangled, wounded, and wonderful. Imperfect. A forever love.

Hannah Tunnicliffe

#24. I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

Hannah Kent

#25. So, congratulations, you're finally getting what you dreamed of." I take the key from around my neck, drop it into his hand, and say, "I understand perfectly.

Jillian Dodd

#26. As her voice finally swells and the song runs out of words, I know I have lost her. She becomes something more important; and she was right, I do not understand.

Pierce Brown

#27. With the way I worked, a client can give me everything they know about something, and then I go away and come back with advertising that knocks them out of their chair. They finally understand what kind of a company they are.

George Lois

#28. He pulls me into his arms, his touch calm and soothing, but unable to erase the truth. "I have to go," he finally whispers. "But Ever, if you want to love me, if you truly want to be with me, then you'll have to accept what we are. I'll understand if you can't.

Alyson Noel

#29. Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

Tori Amos

#30. The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Alice Walker

#31. Finally the pieces started to make sense and I began to feel a pensive awareness of circumstances other than my own; a knowing that brings with it a kind is stillness that I didn't quite understand but accepted it for its own.

Christopher Scotton

#32. I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

Javad Alizadeh

#33. On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.

Kirsten Vangsness

#34. What you are beginning to understand is that these decisions are all directly connected to the way in which we picture how you will be equipped to deal with the world around you when you are finally free of us. I smile as I write these words. Believe me, we want you to be free and self-reliant. We

Omar Saif Ghobash

#35. All I wish is for you to be happy, that everything you aspire to achieve may come true and that, although you may forget me in the course of time, one day you may finally understand how much I loved you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#36. Like tonight, when everyone dressed as zombies, and you wore that. I mean, don't you want to be like everyone else?" "Not particularly," I said, willing her to finally understand how much I had changed, and how very little she knew about me.

Robyn Schneider

#37. From a distance I finally see, I completely understand, As I move forward to take my second step, Followed by a third step, Oh! You are easy to love like a sponge.

Alon Calinao Dy

#38. It took a long moment, but Gerard finally raised his head and looked Jon in the eye. It meant that I have not been honest with you, Jon Calder, and if you are to understand the danger you are in now, I must tell you everything, no matter if you believe me or not.

Hank Edwards

#39. Ski racing was drawing in time, I said to Sandro. I finally had someone listening who wanted to understand: the two things I loved were drawing and speed, and in skiing I had combined them. It was drawing in order to win.

Rachel Kushner

#40. You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter and suddenly having an actor say your words and making them come to life. That I can understand. Finally, I'm starting to understand this.

Reese Witherspoon

#41. I was like, JUST GREAT! Grandma is finally going SENILE! Doesn't she understand that some things in life you're STUCK with and powerless to change?! Jeez!

Rachel Renee Russell

#42. I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

Danger Mouse

#43. But the thing was, I didn't want it. Maybe I never really had. I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in. I was there now. Or close.

Cheryl Strayed

#44. I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

Lisa Wingate

#45. Maybe it's living back at my parents' house, or perhaps going back to school, but somehow, surrounded by all these reminders from my past, in the middle of all the stuff I grew up with, with the people I grew up around, I think I'm finally beginning to understand what 'home' means.

Matt Dunn

#46. Finally, I'd like to thank my readers for staying with me all these years. I especially want to thank the ones who understand that the world isn't made up of happy endings, but messy, complicated, and untidy ones.

Lisa Lutz

#47. I'd finally come to understand what *it* had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

Cheryl Strayed

#48. Vladimir: I don't understand.
Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you?
Vladimir uses his intelligence.
Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

Samuel Beckett

#49. I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this
I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.

Antonin Artaud

#50. Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life ... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#51. Maybe I need to immerse the fabric of my soul in torrential nature of Christmas, and in doing so to finally understand that it is the very thing that can make the world what I so wish it were.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#52. After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, "I would say I want to understand the human soul. Not the mind. The soul.

Michael Lewis

#53. For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.

Randy Travis

#54. I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delightful too, if I let it. My love is not diminished if I let go of sorrow. I almost believe that.

Jenny Qi

#55. And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"
I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-

Friedrich Nietzsche

#56. I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson's disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can't sing a note.

Linda Ronstadt

#57. When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

Mary J. Blige

#58. Revenge is a dish best served cold. I never used to understand that saying, but I think I finally get it.

Karen Marie Moning

#59. It was an ending. I don't think I realized it at the time, and now wonder if anyone truly does recognize the event that starts an ending. Or is it when we look backwards, that we are finally able to understand." Eagle's Destiny ~ Chapter 1

C.J. Corbin

#60. Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.

John Green

#61. The longer it takes me to get between your thighs, the rougher I'm going to be when I finally get there. Understand?

Tessa Bailey

#62. Alice, I hand you her name gently, suggesting that if you hold it, carefully as I do, pressed close to the heart, you might at the end of this understand how confusing the beating of two such similar hearts can be and how one finally had to stop.

A.M. Homes

#63. I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally cured and then found out that you had just become a different kind of fool.

Robert Anton Wilson

#64. I've finally come to understand that life itself is the Fun House. All you want is that door marked EXIT, the escape to a place where Real Life will be; and you can never find it.

Claire Messud

#65. My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

Harry Mathews

#66. I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become ... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

May Sarton

#67. Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

Elizabeth Gilbert

#68. I finally realized that until you understand why you do things, you have no control over what you do.

Jamila Wideman

#69. I understand (finally) that God does not REACT to prayers or petitions. He has ACTED. It is already done.

Carlos Wallace