Quotes About Misunderstanding

Una vez me dijo que sentìa haber sido una decepciòn para mì. Le pregunté que de donde habìa sacado aquella idea absurda. De sus ojos, padre, de sus ojos, dijo. Ni una sola vez se me ocuriò que tal vez yo habìa sido una decepciòn todavìa mayor para ella. A veces nos creemos que las personas son décimos de loterìa: que estàn ahì para hacer realidad nuestras ilusiones absurdas.

Don't make the mistake of confusing the word of God with the missal industry that lives off it.

Da ljudi misle ?etvrtinu onoga što govore, ovaj bi svijet bio raj.

Néha, nehéz körülmények között, összetévesztheti az ember az együttérzést a szerelemmel.

Quizá me quería, a su manera, como yo la quise a ella, a la mía. Pero no nos conocíamos. Quizá porque yo nunca la dejé conocerme, o nunca di un paso por conocerla a ella. Pasamos la vida como dos extraños que se han visto todos los días y se saludan por cortesía. Y pienso que quizá murió sin perdonarme

Once she told me she was sorry she'd been a disappointment to me. I asked her where she'd got that ridiculous idea. 'From your eyes, Father, from your eyes,' she said. Not once did it occur to me that perhaps I'd been an even greater disappointment to her. Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they're not telling the whole story.

Cuando todo el mundo se empeña en pintar a alguien como un monstruo, una de dos: o era un santo o se están callando de la misa la media.

Novels, as everyone knew, were for women and for people who had nothing better to do.

We quarreled, he said. Things were said that shouldn't have been said on both sides. But that girl has such a temper, you wouldn't believe it... She threatened to leave us and said she'd never come back.

We quarreled, he said. Things were said that shouldn't have been said on both sides...

Sometimes Reeve couldn't stand women. They were so practical.

Things sure are easy to get done when you're old and everyone thinks you're senile.

wrong, Miss Drew

People always sounded worried when I called them. Maybe because I only ever called a lot of them when I was in trouble and needed help. I needed to set up more lunch dates or have more parties, to cure people of the idea that a call from me automatically equaled danger. Then again, that was probably a lost cause.

And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very queer mistake?... In the battling tumult of voices he alone was silent.

Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now there was nothing at all to say.

In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

I go all around and try to tell them. And they laugh. I can't make them understand anything. No matter what I say I can't seem to make them see the truth.

She spoke and he could not understand. The sounds were distinct in his ear but they had no shape or meaning. It was as though his head were the prow of a boat and the sounds were water that broke on him and then flowed past. He felt he had to look behind to find the words already said.

He heard him speak some words, but he couldn't make out what they were; he then saw him bend and kiss her, not on the cheek but on the lips. Then Mrs Carver's voice from

Look, I whisper to Cat, Shooting star! That's good luck. She rolls her eyes. It's a plane, you idiot, she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

To Rosie You wrote that card didn't you? From Alex To Alex What card? From Rosie To Rosie Very funny. I no it was you. From Alex To Alex I really don't know what you're talking about. Why would I send you a Valentine's card? From Rosie To Rosie Ha ha! How did you no it was a Valentine's Card! The only way you could no is if you sent it. You love me, you want to marry me. From Alex