Quotes About Misunderstanding

It isn't easy to understand exactly what she is saying, for one doesn't know whether she is speaking ironically or seriously, it's mostly serious, but sounds ironic. - "Stop interpreting everything!" said K.

The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: 'I do not love you,' but: 'You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you.' It is consequently incorrect to say that I have known the words, 'I love you'; I have known only the expectant stillness that should have been broken by my 'I love you,' that is all that I have known, nothing more.

Evil has ways of surprising one. Suddenly it turns round and says: "You have misunderstood me," and perhaps it really is so. Evil transforms itself into your own lips, lets itself be gnawed at by your teeth, and with these new lips -- no former ones fitted smoothly to your gums -- to your own amazement you utter the words of goodness.

It is to us artisans and tradesmen that the salvation of the fatherland is entrusted; but we are not equal to such a task; never, indeed, have we claimed that we were capable of performing it. It is a misunderstanding; and it is proving our ruin.

All the love in the world in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

It is possible that some people are sorry for me, but I am not aware of it.

All the love in the world is useless when there is a total lack of understanding.

answer. How else is he going to understand what is obvious to us, that Herr Klamm never will speak to him – what am I saying, never

Tüm insani hatalar sab?rs?zl?ktan, amaçla ilgili olan?n zamans?z kesintiye uÄŸrat?lmas?ndan ve söz sorunun sözde bir çitle çevrilmesinden doÄŸar.

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.

correct understanding of a matter and misunderstanding the matter are not mutually exclusive.

Ormanda yolunu yitirmiÅŸ çocuklar gibi terk edilmiÅŸlik içerisindeyiz. Önümde durup bana bakt???nda, ne sen benim içimdeki ac?lar? anlayabiliyorsun, ne de ben seninkileri. Ve senin önünde kendimi yere atsam, aÄŸlasam ve anlatsam bile, biri sana cehennemi s?cak ve korkunçtur diye anlatt???nda cehennem hakk?nda ne bilebilirsen, benim hakk?mda da ancak o kadar?n? bilebilirsin.

When I was lying on the sofa and there was loud talking in the rooms on both sides of me, on the left only by women, on the right more by men, I had the impression that they are crude Negro-like unappeasable beings, who don't know what they're saying and only talk to make the air move, who lift their faces while talking and gaze after the words they speak.

Wszystko, co pan mówi, jest nudne i niezrozumiaÅ'e, a wskutek tego wcale nie jest bardziej prawdziwe.

Jedna wielka pomy?ka, poniewa? pobo?ni uwa?aj?, ?e moje zachowanie si? jest naturalne, pozostali za? my?l?, ?e to pobo?no??. - Moja irytacja obala pa?skie twierdzenie. - Pa?ska irytacja – je?li nawet przyjmiemy, ?e jest to rzeczywista irytacja – dowodzi jedynie, ?e nie nale?y pan ani do ludzi pobo?nych, ani do pozosta?ej reszty.

Her ?eyi yanl?? de?erlendiriyorsunuz, sessizli?i de.

Sometimes, when I open my mouth, all hell breaks loose. Other times, I feel like a voice in the wilderness and I wonder, 'Does anybody get this?'

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

When 'Ruby Sparks' came out, I had to do so many interviews where I had to explain the film and my politics. And I think there was a willful misunderstanding by some people. They thought the movie was trying to perpetrate the thing the movie was deconstructing.

It's been Bill for so long people think my name is William, but it's not, it's Mark.

I went out with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher. I was accused of going out with many different people but that wasn't my fault.

Sometimes people come to my standup show, and they think they're going to see Doug Wilson. Or they see me on the street, and they call me Doug Wilson.

It's funny because when you're a Welshman living in England, you always get the mickey taken out of you for being Welsh, and then when you go to Wales with an English accent because you were born in Bristol and grew up in Birmingham, they say you're English. You can never win.