Quotes About Misunderstanding

The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defence for anybody.

In spite of herself, Jean Louise grinned. Alexandra could be relied upon to produce a malapropism on occasions, the most notable being her comment on the gulosity displayed by the youngest member of a Mobile Jewish family upon completing his thirteenth year: Alexandra declared that Aaron Stein was the greediest boy she had ever seen, that he ate fourteen ears of corn at his Menopause.

Jehovah. She catches me when I'm nearly out of my mind and lays out the avenues of my life. How can she be his sister and not have the slightest idea what goes on in his head, my head, anybody's head? Oh Lord, why didn't you give us tongues to explain to Aunt Alexandra?

be', il vecchio Adolf Hitler ha dato addosso agli ebrei, li ha messi in prigione, gli ha portato via tutto e non li ha lasciati uscire dal paese, e poi ha lavato tutti i deboli di nente... Lavato i deboli di mente?... Sissignora, penso che fosse perché non capivano di doversi lavare, forse un debole di mente non sa tenersi pulito.

Kad je gospo?ica Kerolajn stigla do mesta gde Gospa-Ma?ka poziva samoposlugu da naru?i miševe u slatkom ?okoladnom prelivu, razred se ve? vrpoljio kao crvi?i za pecanje u tegli. Izgleda da gospo?ica Kerolajn nije bila svesna toga da su odrpani, u košulje od grubog platna i suknje od džakova za brašno odeveni prvaci, od kojih je ve?ina po?ela brati pamuk i hraniti svinje ?im je prohodala, bili neprijem?ivi za književne maštovitosti.

hard-headed hill folk do not understand coastal plain dreamers

Never assume they know what you fear they know.

It takes Burnett only a moment to figure out what I'm talking about, but says, 'I'm on it. What's wrong with your voice?' 'I'm eating biscuits.' 'You're eating biscuits?' Burnett is obviously still a bit sleepy, since I couldn't have made myself much clearer. 'Yes, sir. I'm eating biscuits. Stolen chocolate digestives. Oh, also, we're going to need some ambulances.' 'Ambulances?' 'Sir, is this a new game where you repeat everything I say?

Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

I'm not totally mad at you. I'm just sad. You're all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.

Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.

I've never met a girl who thinks like you. A lot of people tell me that, she said, digging at a cuticle. But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!

I can never say what I want to say, it's been like this for a while now. I try to say something but all I get are wrong words - the wrong words or the exact opposite words from what I mean. I try to correct myself, and that only makes it worse. I lose track of what I was trying to say to begin with. It's like I'm split in two and playing tag with myself. One half is chasing this big, fat post. The other me has the right words, but this can't catch her.

No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.

Si no lo entiendes sin que te lo explique, quiere decir que no lo entenderás por más que te lo explique

When asked "Was the model for Midori (a character in Norwegian Wood) modeled after your wife?") I showed your message to my wife. She got mad and yelled: "What would make them think I was the model for Midori?!" She told me to fix the misunderstanding immediately, so that's why I'm writing this reply now. Please stop causing problems in my household. Thank you.

My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning.

Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.

On the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.

A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos.

I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.

Telling people her name was always a bother. As soon as the name left her lips, the other person looked puzzled or confused.

I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong.

Mutual understanding is of critical importance. There are those who say that 'understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings