Quotes About Misunderstanding

By misunderstanding the nature and purpose of God's kingdom, we have marginalized the church's authority and influence both within its walls and outside them.

She'd had a terrible time with his brothers' wives : seeing her with them was like watching someone pet a cat against its fur.

I remind my American readers that biscuits in England and Australia are crispy flat things such as you call cookies, and the soft doughy things you call biscuits are what we call scones. And they say we speak the same language…

When people purposefully withhold meaning from one another, individually smart people can do collectively stupid things.

Did anyone ever tell you that you're unbearably beautiful when you get released from policy custody, girl?" he asked. "I can't say that they have. And I apparently wasn't in custody. Just too ignorant to leave on my own.

Just so long as Charlotte doesn't know what was going on," said Lesley. "Don't worry, she went to her room in a fury just because I put down the word cardscissors. "Which as everyone knows are scissors for cutting cards," said Xemerius. "Essential in every household.

Oh, you're so wrong, Henry," she said. "In fact, it's only just begun.

Surprised at those words, his assistant let go of the saliva ejector, which slid halfway down my throat. Apparently, the latest updates on the boss's private life had not gotten around yet. "Ghghghgh," I said. "Sorry," Lena whispered.

Somebody hates vampires, Mr. Chambeaux, but I have no idea who or why. Haven't they read Twilight?

North Americans think they know how to speak Christian, but what they say is actually a gross distortion. Either people do not know Christian words at all, or they have heard them but do not know what they mean, or they think they know what they mean when in fact they mean something completely different.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

The vision of the US-Mexico border as a line that divides rather than unites is a dark one. It is fueled by a small measure of truth—because, of course, like most other regions, crime and criminals have found a haven in the borderlands—but a much larger degree of paranoia, racism, misunderstanding, and nationalist mythmaking.

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who were, for lack of a better term, retarded.

Muslims said the Hindus had planned and started the killing. According to the Hindus, the Muslims were to blame. The fact is, both sides killed. Both shot and stabbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped.

She had the right church, but the wrong pew.

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.

Old creature with a sore leg (reference to Elizabeth I- he was incorrectly told she limped because of a varicose vein)

It's all very well going around thinking you're a cowboy, until you run into somebody who thinks he's an Indian.

I didn't think you'd allow me to attend. (Emily) I'm a beast, Emily, not a bastard. (Draven)

I wish you were small enough that I could give you the spanking you deserve. (Aisleen) Mother, I'm injured. (Ewan) Aye, and in the head to boot. (Aisleen)

Did you call me a pig? (Stryder) I called you a pigheaded boar. (Zenobia) Isn't that redundant? (Stryder)

Without a word or glance, Sin walked past her and climbed up to the stables loft. 'What's he doing?' she asked Braden as she rejoined him. 'I'm leaving the two of you alone,' Sin's muffled voice answered from above. Braden tilted his head up to stare at the wooden beams above their heads. 'Like it would matter, since we know you can hear everything we say?' 'Aye, well, I'm a pervert, not a voyeur.'" -Maggie, Sin, & Braden

That doesn't offend me. 'Witch' is the label society slaps on women it can't understand or control.