Quotes About Misunderstanding

If a husband expresses a thought alone in the middle of the woods," so the joke goes, "is he still wrong?" Probably so.

S'mimasen," Alyss said repeatedly as they brushed against passerby. "What does that mean?" Will asked as they reached a stretch of street bare of any other pedestrians. He was impressed by Alyss's grasp of the local language. "It means 'pardon me,'" Alyss replied, but then a shadow of doubt crossed her face. "At least, I hope it does. Maybe I'm saying 'you have the manners of a fat, rancid sow.

As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him

Before he could finish the question, Will interrupted, thinking to clarify matters but only making them more puzzling—as so often happens.

Women," he muttered to himself. "They're nothing but trouble.

Finally, he made out Hal and pointed to him. "You! On your feet! The Gatmeister wants to talk to you." Hal began to rise, but Ingvar laid a warning hand on his arm. "Don't go, Hal," he said urgently. Hal smiled at him and gently disengaged himself. "It's all right, Ingvar. Talking can't hurt." He had no idea how wrong he was.

After I disappeared, the locals put two and two together and got seven.

My god, she's beautiful,' he whispered to Will. 'Indeed she is,' the young Ranger responded. Neither of them was aware that they were talking about two different people.

Orman nodded wearily 'As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him

I most certainly am not! I wouldn't want a big lump like him riding me. She moved closer to Bumper and whispered, 'Just go along with it, will you? And how do you know my dad is a big lump?' He's a knight. They're all big lumps. But all right, hoist her up.

Flatulence? What's that?' Stig asked. Words of more than two syllables sometimes confused him. 'He farts,' Thorn put in. Stig thought about it, then nodded his head. 'Yeah, well, I can do that.' Hal and Thorn both answered simultaneously. 'We know.

Sounds serious," he said. "Huffing and sighing and eye rolling, you say? I've never heard of a teenage girl behaving like that.

What am I doing wrong?" He inclined his head at her. "Oh, do you think someone as dumb as me might be able to tell you?" he asked in a mock-sweet tone.

Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.

The liberal's problem is his misunderstanding of the true nature of God. He begins with love instead of beginning with holiness. The death of the "Lord's goat" shows the necessity of a death to pay for sin. I used to say, "God owes no man anything," but I was wrong. God owes every sinner the wages of sin, namely death as the penalty for sin. God is honest and will pay the earned wages.

yes, I wrote that for you, who can't sort out lie from lay no matter how often I explain it - crayons and perfume - you still don't get it ...

The tought that some people might be so ignorant as to think someone can be "turned" gay had just never crossed my mind. Who thinks this crap? Like homosexuality is a contagious disease. And if it was contagious, wouldn't a group of us have left packages of infected plaid shirts and jock straps lying around to turn the guys we wanted?

There are times when it is appropriate, even preferable, to get an erection when someone's face is in close proximity to your penis. This was not one of those times.

Ther are so many people. It is easy to forget how full th world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistantly misimagined.

For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.

all the time thinking he'd had no idea before this night how easy it was in this world to be hated.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going to have sex.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.