Quotes About Misunderstanding

Inkaba' is about a feud between two South African families. They have been fighting for years, from one generation to the next. It's like those typical feuds you have in rural KwaZulu-Natal where, after a while, you do not even know why you are fighting.

I always think that in nearly every instance things that turn ugly, they almost invariably do so because of a misunderstanding, or because of poor communication.

My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'

Frequently over the years, people have thought that they know me. Every character actor has this story, I'm sure. It goes like this: 'Um, do you play soccer?' 'Did you go to such and such church?' 'I knew you when you were with so and so... ' Then I go, 'Well, sorry...' and then they say, 'Wait a minute. Are you an actor?'

I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or Communist, but I meant no harm by it.

I think because I'm so naturally happy and unaffected and open, people thought I didn't take the jumping seriously. You're up that high, believe me - you take it very seriously.

Some of the things people have said about me, well, they're unbelievable.

I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

We are not enemies but we are just hostile to each other because of our different views and opinions.

I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val's eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas' unthinking remark.

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me." "So when's the wedding?" Ramsey asked.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

From what you didn't say, lies that you did say.

Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

You see, people hang labels, tags of false identification, on the people that disturb their own sense of reality too much, like the bells that used to be hung on the necks of lepers.

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.