Quotes About Misunderstanding

she does not suspect how much reason I have for deprecating all sympathy.

el mundo entiende tan poco de entusiasmo como un financiero de caridad.

To love him who makes one happy, is to a reflective mind an inadequate definition of what love is; to love him who made one unhappy out of malice, is virtue; but to love him who out of love, though by a misunderstanding, yet out of love, made one unhappy – that is the formula never yet enunciated, so far as I know, but nevertheless the normal formula in reflection for what it is to love.

And the desire to prevent all misunderstanding about an enterprise one is about to undertake is a thing that could occur only to a youth. There is nothing that so easily gets beyond one's control and so easily becomes misunderstood, as a misunderstanding. Even if one were to undertake nothing more than merely to avoid misunderstanding – then in that case one would presumably become the most thoroughly misunderstood of all men.

Bleeding hearts were the easiest to confuse.

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

You may find this hard to believe, Mr. Pinter, she went on defensively, but some men enjoy my company. They consider me easy to talk to. A ghost of a smile touched his handsome face. You're right. I do find that hard to believe. Arrogant wretch. -Jackson and Celia

I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

I spoke no Spanish, so I was unable to haggle with the taxi-drivers. 'Benengeli,' I said, and the first cabbie shook his head and walked away, spitting copiously. The second named a number that had no meaning for me. I had come to a place where I did not know the names of things or the motives for men's deeds. The universe was absurd. I could not say 'dog', or 'where?', or 'I am a man'. Besides, my head was thick, like a soup.

In adaptive terms, belief has been extraordinarily useful. It is, after all, by believing various propositions about the world that we predict events and consider the likely consequences of our actions. Beliefs are principles of action: whatever they may be at the level of the brain, they are processes by which our understanding (and misunderstanding) of the world is represented and made available to guide our behavior.

So you're saying your kissing me back was just a pity thing? Because it sure didn't feel that way to me.

A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.

I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

Edmond did not lose a word, but comprehended very little of what was said.

D'Artagnan took every smile for an insult, and every look as a provocation

Il n'y a que les méchants qui nient l'amitié, parce qu'ils ne la comprennent pas.

You knew and you've been laughing at me.' 'No.' 'Standing by and shaking with laughter.' 'Standing by and loving you.

Men and women rarely speak to each other, though they often talk.

Why can't people say what they mean at the time?

Shouldn't he have waited?" "Not when you told him to go away. People believe you when you say things like that. You never told him you loved him, did you?

People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.