Quotes About Misunderstanding

Why I came to have such quarrels with my mother, to hate and wish dead my mother, I don't know. There was hardly anything she ever told me didn't turn out to be true.

You learned how if a thing is not spoken of, even those closest to you, who love you, will assume that it doesn't exist.

Because nothing between human beings isn't uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them.

You can be on easy terms with such a man, you can see that he likes you, then by mistake you say the wrong word or make the wrong assumption and something shuts down in his face. Like an iron grating over a pawnshop window on a rundown street in Atlantic City. That abrupt.

Misunderstanding is another test you will have to go through in order to be a leader. You have to make up your mind that you are going to stand with God and do what He says even if nobody understands you, agrees with you or supports you. Jesus understands you, and that is enough. When we are misunderstood, it is a good opportunity to practice forgiveness and keep a good attitude. 9.

Do you know why I married you, Philip? Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer. She chuckled at that and shook her head...I believed, she confessed somberly, I honestly believed that I had something to offer you too--something you needed. Do you know what it was? I can't imagine. I thought I could teach you how to laugh and enjoy life. Philip and Caroline

I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping in bed together.

Parents always think they know so much about their kids when really, they hardly know a thing.

We can't be direct, so we end up saying the weirdest things.

Like many another Western pioneer, he had heard the clock of history strike, and counted the strokes wrong.

There is a revisionist theory, one of those depth-psychology distortions or half-truths that crop up like toadstools whenever the emotions get infected by the mind, that says we hate worst those who have done the most for us. According

The common belief that to follow the Buddha's teaching one has to retire from life is a misconception. It is really an unconscious defence against practising it.

Whenever you conclude that God is unjust, you can know that you err biblically. Behind your misconception you will find the beautiful, gracious work of God.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

Verwechsle nicht den Botschafter mit der Nachricht." (Storr der Schnitter)

The Aztecs invented the wheel, but didn't know how to use it except as a children's toy. Even though they built roads that to us scream out to have a wheel put on them, nonetheless they continued to drag things around. The society itself was blind to the possibilities.

Una llamada telefónica de la persona que "supuestamente" nos ama puede estar motivada por muchas cosas distintas al amor: una simple nostalgia pasajera, confirmar un chisme, sentimientos de pesar o de culpa.

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled — it's just the opposite!

That's what Harold said." "Harold—

No one ever wins a generational war.

well-meaning people are often trying to solve a problem by answering the wrong question.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

sorrow than in anger," and it begins to be suspected that he never intended to injure or offend.