Quotes About Misunderstanding

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.

isn't it such a tragic thing when you can see it so clearly but the other person doesn't

People are not a threat, wrong ideas are.

I just wished they'd see Mari, their daughter. I wished they saw how much I liked art and how much I didn't want to dedicate my life to something I wasn't passionate about.

But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other

We often misunderstood between having good number of friends and having number of good friends.

Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say.

If you say anything, it just gets worse.

More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.

We know when our actions fail to match our inner thoughts and feelings, but we often forget that this knowledge is not available to others.

There were numerous physical combats between husbands and wives, and not always the husbands that matched the wives. Kitty Hofman, for instance, had been given a black eye by Carter Davis when she kicked him in the groin for dunking her head in a punch bowl for calling him a son of a bitch for telling her she looked like something the cat dragged in. And so on.

There is no real communication with those we love most

In conflict, before we even hear what the other side has said, we assume we know what they mean. We have already attached motives to their messages. Often, even before they have finished, we are developing our response.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

Given that there is no factual evidence to support the neo-Patais' argument that sexual deprivation causes terrorism, it might be more useful to look at what Arabs and Westerners have in common, rather than what sets them apart.

He had a good heart, he wanted to help with the cattle work, he thought he was Head of Ranch Security, but he wasn't very smart and never understood why the cowboys were mad at him all the time." (regarding the original Hank the Cowdog)

You can't enter the mosque any more because of them. They pray in a completely different way and do everything wrong. They turned Sarajevo into a black hole and now the whole world is against us.... They sowed the seed of evil and left us with it."90

John Morris says the Lepchas are obsessed with sex. (The Lepchas say John Morris is obsessed with sex.)

since persons, even of considerable mental endowment, often give themselves so little trouble to understand the bearings of any opinion against which they entertain a prejudice, and men are in general so little conscious of this voluntary ignorance as a defect that the vulgarest misunderstandings of ethical doctrines are continually met with in the deliberate writings of persons of the greatest pretensions both to high principle and to philosophy.

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.