Quotes About Misunderstanding

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.

I don't understand why women get so frustrated with guys talking to other women, just casual conversation. I don't get it. I've had a problem with that.

People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

I think the most frustrating thing is when people... sometimes people are a bit lazy and they don't listen to something, and they'll just say you sound like something else and it's quite clear that you don't, I think that's frustrating.

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

Necessité fait gens méprendre Et faim saillir le loup du bois.

Non, monsieur. Je n'ai pas le canif de mon oncle.' That

You thought I was a native! You dared! You don't know anything about natives! They are not people—they're servants who must salaam to you. You know nothing about India. You know nothing about anything!

Horrid Henry scowled. Typical teacher. You're interested enough in what they're saying to ask a question, and suddenly they don't want to answer.

And underneath, Robin Wilson is a deranged freak! Why she doesn't like any of us after all we did for her, I'll never know. But it's the mark of a sick person.

Are you afraid no one loves you? Taryn looked serious. Because my mom says that people really do love each other. They just get confused sometimes and forget how to let each other know.

Regina didn't answer, and that made Jessica fume. What's wrong with this girl? she wondered. Why is she treating me like dirty dishwater? Then she began to piece it together. The stumble, the lack of response to Jessica—It was only natural to conclude that the Morrow girl was drunk. Say, Regina, Jessica called. She took a few steps toward her and tapped her on the shoulder. Where are you hiding the booze?

Her mother had responded in kind, and the result was "unpleasantness and misery rebounding all the time.

She has not one particle of vanity in her. She covers her scars because they disturb others. No other reason than that. People see the mark of the lion on her. They fail to see what it means.

No matter how kind or well-meaning you are, someone will always resent you.

Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica

I poke nothing at you except words. I do it without fear of offending because I have learned that you have no ears.

She didn't like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad'Dib as Him.

I am surrounded by such useless clods. If I scattered sand before this creature and told him it was grain, he'd peck at it.

I have no notion of what he's talking about. I have to lie and say, I do. He says, You do know he was perhaps the greatest satirist in English literature. I thought he was Irish.

Quite an affair had arisen from this circumstance. Miss Baker and Old Grannis were both over sixty, and yet it was current talk amongst the lodgers of the flat that the two were in love with each other. Singularly enough, they were not even acquaintances; never a word had passed between them.

Then, seeing a distressed look on Chet's face, he added, "I mean after lunch.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.