Quotes About Misunderstanding

God knows what the Yanks will make of 'Kevin and Perry.' It's totally gross to them because we don't look like we're off 'Dawson's Creek' or whatever. They'll think we're really weird.

Una humanidad, global o parcial, q no tuviera ninguna conciencia de su pasado sería tan anormal como un individuo amnésico (…) en la medida en q el pasado humano es mal conocido, malinterpretado, los hombres y los grupos de hombres, tiene una visión incorrecta de su presente, ?y de su futuro

Because you could not translate the word apartheid into the more universal language of English, the wrong connotation was given to it.

Forse il destino della penisola si può racchiudere nel suo stesso nome: Yucatán deriva dalle parole maya ciu-tan , e significa "noi non vi capiamo". Era la frase più sentita dagli spagnoli, che anche qui erano venuti in cerca di oro senza trovarne nemmeno un'oncia, e alla loro reazione violenta gli indios avevano solo il tempo di dire "non riusciamo a comprendervi".

Un amigo que no entiende, simplemente, no es tan bueno como uno creía

There is nothing like desire for preventing the things one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

And while it might seem to a parent that tattling is incessant, to a child that's not the case—because for every one time a child seeks a parent for help, there were fourteen other instances when he was wronged and did not run to the parent for aid.

Suffering from feelings of inner emptiness, some meditation practitioners may misunderstand and likewise be attracted to the Buddhist notion of 'no-self,' and mistakenly seek doctrinal validation for their feelings of emptiness.

Kadang-kadang saya merasa sangat terisolasi. Saya hidup di dunia saya sendiri, dan hal ini seperti berada di pengasingan. Saya tidak tahu apakah orang masih ingin tahu apa yang sebenarnya saya pikirkan.

Mereka bertengkar ramai dalam bahasa yang bagiku sama asingnya dengan bahasa nasib manusia.

You know, Maude . . . somebody meeting you for the first time -- not knowing you were cracked -- might get the wrong impression of you.

A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that question a lot. 'How would you react if you were me?' They say, 'Okay, okay.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

The first victim when a dispute occurs is the truth.

The worst feeling between two people is misunderstanding.

In quarreling the truth is always lost.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

That wasn't gorilla was it?

We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.

God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.' 'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife. 'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him.

What, should we get rid of our ignorance, the very substance of our lives, merely in order to understand one another?

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.