Quotes About Misunderstanding

Those important brain circuits, the ones that enabled most of us to avoid saying the wrong thing, were simply not there in Martha's case; or fired in the wrong order; or were short-circuiting. In other words, Martha Drummond was an electrical problem. And understanding people as electrical problems undoubtedly helped one to tolerate them.

We French people sometimes appear rude but are not really intending to be rude. It is because…" He shrugged. "Perhaps it's something to do with our language. French may sound a bit arrogant sometimes. As if it's God talking, perhaps. You know how God talks. French suits him very well, I think." Annabelle laughed. "The English used to say that God spoke English. But we knew he spoke French all along.

When you don't talk about something, then something will talk about itself for you.

The signals confused Mma Ramotswe; she knew the Indian habit of moving the head from side to side meant the opposite of what it meant elsewhere and signified approval rather than disagreement, but she was not sure what a combination of movements meant. Perhaps there was something wrong with Mr. Sengupta; perhaps his head was loose.

Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other—and

Mma Makutsi sighed. "You don't understand, Charlie. The word chairman covers both men and women." She paused. "Mind you, Mma Potokwane, many people these days just use the word chair. Perhaps you'd like—" She was not allowed to finish. "Certainly not, Mma," said Mma Potokwane. "I am not a chair—I am a person.

A deaf man summoned a deaf man to be judged By a deaf Judge.

How poorly we communicate, even the most drastic messages, even to ourselves.

best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.

Words spoken in pain could be far crueler than the speaker really intended. -Bound

Manet also had an argument with Degas, the end result being that they each returned paintings that they had previous given to each other.

He had reframed himself in my mind as a thickheaded man who couldn't conceive that his words and actions hurt me deeply, benign as he may have thought they were. The consequences were that what he had done changed the way I felt about him. And a halfhearted apology wouldn't restore my love for him.

Mrs. Pollifax wondered why, when she was being her most serious, people found her so amusing.

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

A husband can physically and verbally chastise their wife in order to control their behavior. The Bible says so.

She sighed audibly. 'I bet this is something to do with the bloody magazine.' 'Fanzine. It's not a magazine, it's a fa-' 'I don't

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

I treated women as human beings, which is of course fatal.

Was I the only person in the world clueless enough to have always thought that AD meant After Death,

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says. He is always convinced that it says what he means." —George Bernard Shaw

she would say he had raped her, getting

When it comes to women, men only hear what they want to hear. It's one of the many failures of their sex.