Quotes About Misunderstanding

The very first [Franciscan friars] to cross the Alps knew no German and lacked an interpreter. The brothers discovered that the word 'ja' usually had good results, but when they used it in reply to the question whether they were heretics, they ran into trouble. The next group had an interpreter.

17There are two sides to every story. The first one to speak sounds true until you hear the other side and they set the record straight.i

The idea of a licentious West that many Arabs hold today closely mirrors the view that Europeans had of the Middle East a couple of centuries or more ago.

You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we all would, if only there weren't these great distances we need to put between us and the people we need to talk to.

I have no idea,' he said, and that's another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: be wary of a man who says, 'I have no idea,' when asked why his wife doesn't like something he's done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.

Just be careful what you say. Don't upset him." "You mean the Grumpus guy?" "It's Krampus.

Just be careful what you say. Don't upset him." "You mean the Grumpus guy?" "It's Krampus." "Just who's this—

Affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.

We lived in Indian summer and mistook it for spring.

The very foundation of interhuman discourse is misunderstanding. -Lacan, Seminar III, 184

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

We always misunderstand the strength of the strong. Though people attribute it to the purity of an actant, it is invariably due to a tiered array of weaknesses

Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.

Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?

No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will never pound into me what you were just now saying.

My dear sir, in this world it is not so easy to settle these plain things. I have ever found your plain things the knottiest of all.

Never actually having owned a dog myself, I wasn't sure what the correct procedure was. Did I offer to pay for the morning-after pill, or something? Should I insist that Braveheart marry her?

She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?' "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

Los niños creíamos que se trataba de una enfermedad sin cura, lo saludábamos con lástima y una vez nos atrevimos a preguntarle si la homosexualidad le dolía mucho.

A son is the promise that time makes to a man, the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that the person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.

She knew very well that people fell out, even stormily, and then made up. But she did not know how to start - she simply did not have the trick of it, the row that cleared the air, and could never quite believe that hard words could be unsaid or forgotten.

He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.