Quotes About Misunderstanding

The third agreement is don't make assumptions. We have the tendency to make assumptions about everything. The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking — we take it personally — then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison with our word. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make an assumption, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.

A menudo, suponemos que nuestra pareja sabe lo que pensamos y que no es necesario que le digamos lo que queremos.

I'm never going to understand girls.

We are speaking different languages, as always, but that doesn't change the things we talk about.

Ka?dy z literatów pomyÅ›laÅ' co innego. Berlioz: "Nie, to jednak cudzoziemiec!", a Bezdomny: "O, cholera!...".

Dictionary of Misunderstood Words

I imagine the feelings of two people meeting after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. The same recollections? That's where the misunderstanding starts: they don't, have the same recollections; each of them retains two or three small scenes from the past, but each has his own; their recollections are not similar; they don't intersect.

Promatra njihova usta koja se otvaraju sva istodobno, usta koja melju, izbacuju rije?i i bez prestanka praskaju u smijeh (zagonetka: kako se žene koje se me?usobno ne slušaju mogu smijati onome što govore?).

One morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far-off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding

Zijn hele leven was hij bang haar te kwetsen. En alleen daarom onderwierp hij zich vrijwillig aan de discipline van een afstompende monogamie. Twintig jaar later blijkt opeens dat zijn bezorgdheid totaal overbodig is en dat hij tientallen vrouwen heeft gemist vanwege een misverstand!

And in fact, Soviet films, which flooded the cinemas of all Communist countries in that cruelest of times, were saturated with incredible innocence and chastity. The greatest conflict tat could occur between two Russians was a lovers' misunderstanding: he thought she no longer loved him; she thought he no longer loved her. But in the final scene they would fall into each others' arms, tears of happiness trickling down their cheeks.

Each interpreted the other's words in his own way, and the lived in perfect harmony, the perfect solidarity of perfect Mutual misunderstanding.

He had been afraid of wounding her all his life and voluntarily stuck to a stultifying discipline of monogamy, and now, after twenty years, he suddenly learned that it had all been superfluous and he had given up scores of women because of a misunderstanding.

We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

Each interpreted the other's words in his own way, and they lived in perfect harmony, the perfect solidarity of perfect mutual misunderstanding.

She had always secretly reproached him for not loving her enough. Her own love she considered above reproach, while his seemed mere condescension.

He was afraid to say it, because everything he had said so far failed to come out as intended, and these sincere words, too, would sound sarcastic to his colleague.

Toda la vida había tenido miedo de herirla y sólo por eso se había impuesto voluntariamente la disciplina de una monogamia idiotizante. ¡Y al cabo de 20 años de pronto comprueba que sus reparos han sido completamente inútiles y que se había privado de otras mujeres sólo por culpa de un malentendido!

Pišemo knjige zato što se naša deca ne zanimaju za nas. Obra?amo se anonimnom svetu zato što naša žena zatvara uši kad joj se obra?amo.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

You don't like me, but you love me; either way, you're wrong.