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Quotes About Misunderstanding

I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.
~ John Swartzwelder
Adam says to God, "God, why did you make women so soft?" God says, "So that you will like them." Adam says, "God, why did you make women so warm and cuddly?" God says, "So that you will like them." Adam says to God, ''But, God, why did you make them so stupid?" God says, "So that they will like you.
~ John Vorhaus
not be friends of
~ John Wain
If things had started over a misunderstanding, some language barrier or even a dramatic physical difference, he might've forgiven some of the things they did. But the way they acted made it clear they not only didn't care about anyone else, but they also relished the horrors they committed. Is that how they keep score within their social structure?
~ John Walker
I don't think you're entirely understanding how this boyfriend thing works, Ben. Denying me in the shower, it's very hurtful." "You do realize I can actually hear the air quotes when you say boyfriend.
~ John Wiltshire
You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.
~ John Wyndham
There they sit, with everyone thinking no more of them than they might of a pretty odd lot of cabbages, yet half the time they're pattering and clattering away at one another. Why? What is it they patter about? That's what I want to know.' I
~ John Wyndham
The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.
~ John Yoo
Be a chef, be a beggar, be divorced a zillion times, no one in this city cared. Smoke yourself to death out the window. Scare your wife and go to jail. It was heaven to live here. Susie never got that. Poor Susie.
~ Elizabeth Strout
He thought you were just an older white woman writing about older white women." And I have to tell you, that stung me a bit.
~ Elizabeth Strout
No, they would never get over that night because they had said things that altered how they saw each other.
~ Elizabeth Strout
It was a nightmare I could never really define, to have so many people packed around me and not be able to communicate with any of them unless they felt like it.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Listening to the Rabbits talk about their operations was like watching a horror movie in a foreign language. You sort of hoped you'd misunderstood what was going on. And then when you figured out what was really going on, it was worse than you'd thought.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Wie konnte sie sich so irren? Sie mag ihn noch immer, weil sie einfach nicht versteht. Wann war die falsche Abzweigung? Manche Freundschaften zerbrechen aus heiterem Himmel. Heiter? Sie zerbrechen. Nichts daran ist heiter.
~ Elke Heidenreich
The woman looked at the man, who was nursing his thumb. "I know you're still pissed about Siberia.
~ Ellen Datlow
Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.' Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Actually this is really funny - one time she accidentally forgot to leave a note and I had no idea she had even moved. I was living in the house with a beautiful Mexican family for three months before I realized they weren't my cousins visiting from out of town. They were so nice. They called me "Quien es, quien es," which I thought was a beautiful name.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
There are "well-known secrets" out there and there are people who are "so happy they could die." Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they're right. Basically what I'm saying is, I usually don't know what people are talking about.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Then you panic because you've never known the difference between a sweet potato and a yam and both are on the counter, and if you start making a yam pie you'll never hear the end of it.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our case in His hands. He will as surely vindicate the cause of those who put their trust in Him as He searched out the guilt of Achan. Those who are actuated by the spirit of Christ will possess that charity which suffers long and is kind.
~ Ellen G. White
Then she probably would have waved back," Max said. "And it might be a he." "Ha! Not likely," Lucia said. "Didn't you notice them?" "Them what?" Max asked. "Her... you know. She has breasts, Max! What do you think that is on her chest?" "I think it's a pair of crossed arms," Max said.
~ Ellen Potter
Just because he has black fingernails doesn't mean he's a monster-that's how you've defended yourself for years.
~ Ellen Schreiber