Quotes About Misunderstanding

You bastard!" Wax shouted toward the box. "Now, now," the box said. "That's patently false, Waxillium. You have a very clear understanding of my parentage.

For a second," Megan added, "I thought you were going to be forced into the bathroom there with me. Too bad. It would have been amusing to watch you squirm.

I know that many women who read this will see it only as further proof that I am the godless heretic everyone claims. —From Oathbringer, preface

Resigned sigh." I looped us after an enemy ship. "Did you just say the words resigned sigh?" "I find human nonlinguistic communications to be too easily misinterpreted," he said. "So I'm experimenting with ways to make them more explicit." "Doesn't that defeat the purpose?" "Obviously not. Dismissive eye-roll.

That was always their mistake—assuming they knew why Shai did what she did.

believe you stray into sarcasm." "Funny. I thought I'd run straight into it, screaming at the top of my lungs.

I don't think so. Beth didn't get any presents.

People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of the disagreement, for the sake of protecting a relationship and maintaining connection. But when we avoid certain conversations, and never fully learn how the other person feels about all of the issues, we sometimes end up making assumptions that not only perpetuate but deepen misunderstandings, and that can generate resentment.

As crazy as it sounds, many of us will choose to stay in the resentment, disappointment, and frustration that come with believing people aren't trying rather than face a difficult conversation about real deficits.

What starts as a small disagreement about an unimportant issue becomes a fight over wrongly assigned intentions and hurt feelings.

Generosity is not a free pass for people to take advantage of us, treat us unfairly, or be purposefully disrespectful and mean. What I realized is that a generous assumption without boundaries is another recipe for resentment, misunderstanding, and judgement.

And Mademoiselle Dupre, finding everything unintelligible, was completely reassured: such good-bys were normal among the unfortunate English-speakers, an uncouth language, it affected their minds; or perhaps, poor people, it was not given to all languages to perform with the precision, the clarity, the grace of a French epigram.

Lauren frowned at Matthias. "We're not dating." It figured that was the part of the conversation she'd focus on. Garrett couldn't imagine what Matthias would do with that information later. "Are you sure?" Matthias asked. Lauren's frown only deepened. "Wouldn't I know?" "Given Garrett's skill with women? Possibly not.

The soul suffers from nothing more than from not being understood. This is, though, its fate elicited by its own nature.

What was that?' Wallander said. [Linda] 'Nothing.' 'That's funny. I could have sworn you were swearing.' 'I didn't say anything.' 'I have a strange daughter,' Wallander said to Lindman. 'She curses without even knowing it.'

El dodo no sabía lo que era un enemigo. Y por eso, lógicamente, lo consideraron tonto.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Through the generations there seems to run a chain of wounds and needs. And when we try to avoid inflicting wounds ourselves, we discover that even with our best intentions we cannot avoid encountering people who feel rejected, misunderstood, or hurt by us.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

He said They were heartily welcome to his poor cottage, and turning to Mr. Didapper, cried out, 'Non mea renidet in domo lacunar.' The beau answered, He did not understand Welsh; at which the parson stared and made no reply.

persons who suspect they have given others cause of offence, are apt to conclude they are offended;

There is first of all a misunderstanding of what it is that has been causing prices to rise. The real cause is either a scarcity of goods or a surplus of money.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.