Quotes About Misunderstanding

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

At the pace I'm running, trying to get the ball, the slightest touch could trip me over. You don't have to literally push me over. That's what people don't understand. But unless you're able to run that fast, you'll never understand.

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.

I am usually a fun-loving person, and I say most of the things in a jest. Sometimes I get in trouble, but over a period of time, I think people now realise that most of the things I say are in jest.

The trouble is that people are all too ready to jump to conclusions about anybody who they think looks a bit strange. They think you must be mentally subnormal.

Just because I get in trouble or into a situation outside of boxing, don't let that make your statement on my boxing.

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

It is troublesome sometimes when people get up in your face in public, you know? And say, 'How could you, how dare you?' Well, they don't know me.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

I don't think people truly know what I have done or that I've actually had a regular job.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's never going to understand it.

Some people assume I'm a spoilt trust fund kid who's never had to work for anything, while others think the best of me because of the good experience they had with my grandfather. It's difficult to digest the fact that they may never see me for who I am.

People younger than me trust me. People my age do not. They think I'm up to something. And I've often felt this.

I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

A date once leaned in to kiss me, and he ended up kissing my cheek. He was a little offended, but I didn't want to kiss him just to not hurt his feelings.

So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions".