Quotes About Misunderstanding

Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.

The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that its really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than I am.

Don't ever try to judge me dude. You don't know what the fuck I've been through

they can trigger me, bu they'll never figure me out

She grabbed his shirt and tore it open, buttons popping off and flying everywhere. She insinuated a knee between his thighs, meaning to apply some provocative friction to his private parts while she undid his pants. But he misread her intention. 'Oh, no, you don't

I wish I knew what you were talking about," she returned. "Where's the pin?" "Pin?" "Yes. Pin. To fasten the diaper. The kid can't hold the thing up with two hands.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Quand j'ai vu TIti et Grosminet, toute cette violence contre le pauvre chat, j'ai horreur de Titi. Il était à l'aise, lui, il taquinait le chat ; le pauvre minou, lui, ne comprenait rien et en prenait plein la tête. C'est un naïf. Titi est un salopard.

Actions do not betray, but language is filled with the danger of betrayal at any instant. This quality is what makes language both infinitely beautiful and infinitely frightening.

The absent are always in the wrong

What do you suppose? A bee sat on my nose. Then what do you think? He gave me a wink And said, "I beg your pardon, I thought you were the garden."

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

Come in quella canzone incredibile dei Cure dove lei è bellissima e il povero la guarda ammirato e lei si sente offesa e Robert Smith dice: «Ecco perché ti odio».

Esperar comprensión y amor de las mujeres era como pedirle caricias a un puercoespín.

Personas de gran exigencia intelectual y potentísima inteligencia son hoy plenamente conscientes de que su destino en la vida —explicar lo que han entendido y que los otros no comprenden o no quieren ver— no sirve para nada porque a los otros ni les incumbe ni lo comprenden ni lo quieren saber.

The indirectness of communication conceals the formation of schisms—different team members use terms differently but don't realize it.

The collie heard the word "lass," and barked at it. The pedlar shook his head. "Nay, that's the pity of it. Ye can understand some o' man's language, but man isn't bright enough to understand thine. And yet it's us that's supposed to be most intelligent!

Moujiks. Right. What's a moujik?" the Tsar asked. "Peasants, your majesty." "Pheasants?" "No! Peasants.

is far too easy for us to base our claims to God on our own Christian religiosity and our church commitment, and in so doing utterly to misunderstand and distort the Christian idea.

Men and women, women and men; it will never work.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

Life is damned to be a misunderstanding, if we just see it as we think it is, and not as it actually is. Life will be a sequence of misapprehensions, if we experience it with our own quirky wording, our own constricted view and not with the language of others. ( " Life was a misunderstanding » )