Quotes About Misunderstanding

Cloudkit's eyes widened. "Phew, I bet she was a grump! Did she claw you?" "Only with her tongue," Fireheart replied. "And that's sharp enough!

Sometimes," Cinderpaw told her. "But only to keep me quiet." She looked at the ground. "Actually, I don't think he likes having me around." "Nonsense!

It must bother you that she's spending so much time with Blazefire. I don't blame you. . . ." Sunbeam halted as abruptly as if a rock had sprung up from the ground and thumped her in the chest. "What do you mean? I haven't talked much with Blazefire recently, but he's still my . . . my special friend.

Drizzle pricked her ears. "Yesterday she said that I was as dumb as a water vole. But I'm not." "Of course you're not!" Pine Needle's whiskers twitched mischievously. "You're dumber.

Jaypaw let out an exasperated sigh. "Mousefur, for the last time—" "The last time?" Mousefur snapped. "Good. Go away.

Looking for you!" "Spying on me!" Hollypaw flinched. "You shouldn't be here, playing with her!" She glared at Heatherpaw. "Why not? She's just a friend." "A friend from another Clan!" "You're friends with Willowpaw!" "I don't sneak off every night to see her." Lionpaw opened his mouth to object, but no words came out.

Lionblaze blinked at her uncharacteristically sharp tone.

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

Ok. Hørte dere det, unger? Ingen linje fra Ludwig II til nasjonalsosialismen. Ifølge moren deres. Hvem vil ha is?

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

And I apparently take this as my cue to shove my foot even further into my mouth.

It is not new nor disastrous that few people read classics. It is new that so many people misread them.

My cell rings. I answer it without looking at the caller ID. "Hannah, I'm sorry." My voice is a moan. "It's Ryan, actually.'' "Oh. Hey, Ryan." I grin. "What'd you do to Hannah?" I try to be evasive. "What are you talking about?" "Uh-huh. Good try. What did you do?" "She'll thank me for it one day." "Oh man! It was that bad?" "Will you relax? It is not bad." "Is? Present tense? It's still going on?" "Calm down, Ryan!" "I have known you too long, Laurie Holbrook, to relax.

This is what I say: "Leave me alone!" This is how it comes out: "Leefmaown.

We did not understand each other's differing notions of property.

A misunderstanding of the Laws of the Universe is at the heart of this conversation as the people of your society wage wars against the things they do not want: war against terror, war against AIDS, war against teenage pregnancy, war against violence, war against cancer—and every one of those things is getting bigger because attention to unwanted creates more unwanted.

What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.

we can misinterpret some of our perceptions of emotions, those visceral feelings—mistaking anger for guilt, love for hate.

It is quite incredible that men, whose desire for knowledge is unbounded in every other field, are really totally blind to these facts, that they are incapable of seeing women as they really are: with nothing else to offer but a vagina, two breasts,....

Ehud was tall and strong and was always quiet. Lots of people thought that Ehud was quiet because he was stupid. That wasn't true. He may not have been the smartest kid on the block, but he was no moron either.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

Even though innocent, anything I say incriminates me; blameless as I am, my defense just makes me sound worse.