Quotes About Misunderstanding

The deepest source of all calamities in history is misunderstanding. For where we do not understand, we can never be just. Being

It's not natural for members of a society to adopt a calm, rational stance towards a group of people who violate social restrictions to act in a contrary fashion in all matters. Society is bound to misunderstand them, ascribing perverse motives to their straightforward actions, viewing as evil whatever they regard as good. So it should be. It is one of the penalties to be paid for deliberately breaking social laws.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

I am never taking a trip with either of you ever again.' Eve said. 'Ever.' Excellent' Shane said. 'Then next trip, we hit the strip bar.' I have a gun, Shane,' Eve sighed. What, you think i actually loaded yours?' Eve flipped him off, and Claire laughed.

I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator.

Like love, I said, being understood creates the fear that you will never be understood again.

Foi então que se lembrou de que, provavelmente, Vicente nunca lera o Machado... Nem nada do que ela lia.

Pratite me do sobe?« upitala je i ne pokuÅ¡avajuci prikriti razdražljivost. »Da.« Ali ni on nije zvucao sretno zbog toga. »ZaÅ¡to? Ne morate me pratiti do sobe.« »Ja sam drag momak.« Trpko se nasmijala i pogledala ga krajickom oka. »Ako to stvarno mislite, gadno se varate. Možda su vas previÅ¡e puta udarili u glavu.«

Kako je razgovor skrenuo od onoga kada ga je željela poljubiti do ovogasada kada ga želi ne?ime zveknuti u glavu?I zašto nije bila ni najmanje iznena?ena?

I mistook you for a metaphor.

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

The fans pay our wages and I want to give back to the fans. I have been telling them for ages that I want big fights and they haven't believed me. They don't know the politics that go on behind the scenes through no fault of my own.

The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.

They see me all the time at Bayreuth and think I only like Wagner's music, and it's not true.

I like to play around with people who don't know me. Often I'm talking to people through my speaker phone, and after 10 minutes or so they say, 'Wait a minute, Marlee, how can you hear me?' They forget I have an interpreter there who is signing to me as they talk. So I say, 'You know what? I can hear on Wednesdays.'

Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you, always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of you people think I'm a bad guy?

When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.

Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking moment putting love into it and trying to make it better, and people didn't understand that. You'd want them to.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

There is a lot men don't know about women. And I'm not just talking about how you manage to leave the bathroom smelling like a tropical rainforest after you shower or how you're able to walk in shoes that rely on nothing more than the support of two five-inch toothpicks.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'