Quotes About Misunderstanding

Another one of life's little jokes. I thought it was a tumor 'til it started to kick.

the fact that his shut-down strategy works just fine in many situations. But in love relationships, it simply alarms his partner and writes the next part of the story with a negative slant.

I never saw the whole picture. I just knew he wasn't close to me. I saw him as not caring. Now I see how he was ducking my bullets and trying to calm me down. I shoot when I get desperate and can't get a reaction any other way.

what I call the Content Tube. This is where partners bring up detailed example after detailed example of each other's failures to prove their point. The couple fight over whether these details are "true" and whose bad behavior "started this.

Aunt-Sister said Charleston had a case of the grandeurs. Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness.

Charleston had a case of the grandeurs. Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness. Missus was a short

But she and Cyrus had had a love for the ages. They had connected so beautifully, with both understanding and passion. But now what did she have to show for the marriage? A husband who thought she was shrewish. The gonorrhea infection

At the moment, I think we each genuinely believed ourselves to be the protagonist, and the other a naive and pardonable walk-on whose role might even have a tragic end. Still, it was good to trade compassion in that large and chilly room, regardless if one of us, or perhaps both of us, would turn out to be mistaken.

Never has a book been as sorely misused as the Bible to justify beatings.

Well? Marsha asked when Charity had left. A single word with a thousand meanings, Josh thought grimly. What was it about women and language? They could make a man squirm without putting much effort into the task. A skill he both admired and feared.

So are you naked?" The switch in topic caught her unaware. She shimmied a little deeper into the sleeping bag. "I, ah, left on my panties." Zane swore softly. "I guess I deserved that for asking." "Deserved what?" "You don't want to know.

Yup--nothing like asking about bull sperm to shut down a conversational exchange.

Zane liked her. At least Chase thought he did, and she was gone enough on the man to be willing to accept the gospel truth from a seventeen-year-old.

If you want to know, you need to ask her. Speculation will only lead to trouble.

What? Are you on crack? I did no such thing.

How easily a parent's motive could be misconstrued by an injured child.

When Darla told her parents she was pregnant, they made her leave. They were old-school. Said they couldn't handle the shame.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or two questions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.

All too long, those who teach of God have taught the worlds the evolutionary process of the soul as if the soul must advance itself from the physical body to the mind and then to the spirit. But this has never been God's way, and all who have sought God have misunderstood God's plan but for only a handful and a few. The Earth is God's key world that He

We are not just generations apart but are chasms apart in language,too

Everyone thinks I do heroin. It's not even true, I do crystal meth.