Quotes About Misunderstanding

I started to think she was such an idiot that I didn't really want to be friends with her after all.

If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

Frikkie said, "Van der Merwe had a flagpole lying on the ground. He propped it in its hole, got a ladder and a tape measure and tried to climb up to measure it, but the flagpole fell down. Twice again he propped it up and tried to climb it. Finally a Kaffir said, 'Baas, why don't you measure it when it's on the ground?' and Van der Merwe said, 'Stupid Kaffir, I want to know its height, not its width.' Ã¢â'¬Â Jopie said

He thought of this statement a long time and wondered why people so attached to God should take such positive delight in crucifying a man who had precisely the same love for God, but with a different manner of expressing it. He

In depicting the Indian background, do not commit these traditional errors: Do not show them on war parties in full regalia. I judge from what I have read that Indians in their everyday occupations looked pretty much like students at the Boulder campus of Colorado University today, except that the Indians may have been somewhat cleaner.

I do not think you have ever lied to me but I know that you have never told me the truth—why?

Why is it there is always such violence between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law? Doesn't daughter-in-law, in time, become mother-in-law? Why does she then always treat her own daughter-in-law to a lashing tongue and make her life a misery, and why does that girl do the same in her turn? Doesn't anyone learn?

Poor God," Blackthorne said. "The stupidities He gets blamed for!

Generations of accumulated misunderstanding between these two continental giants has so far led to three major Asian wars that have left millions dead and has distorted U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy.

It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I am as awful as people say and worse. She laughed and I had a friend. She didn't become my Ally and I didn't ask her to or want her to but she became my friend and that was more than anyone else was willing to do.

Some black people who have not heard me interviewed or read my book jump to conclusions and prejudge me... I've been called Uncle Tom. I've been called an Oreo.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

For me to want to play the trumpet was a very, very odd thing for my clan as a whole. One of my uncles was a high school principal, and he referred to my trumpet as a bugle, which really hurt me.

A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.

You know, I'm not really any good at working out when people are flirting with me. And I think I'm too flirtatious with people I'm trying not to flirt with! What I am good at is making people feel uncomfortable. I don't want to but it always ends up happening!

Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.

One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a good-bad proposition - that if we're good we can't be part of it, that being uncomfortable means you're a terrible person. We have to let go of that and understand it as a system we all live in.

If you are uncomfortable, you make your family uncomfortable because they don't know how to treat you when they come.

I think people underestimate because I'm the rap guy, I'm a crazy guy, screaming all the time. But that doesn't mean that I'm not intelligent.

I think there has been this increasing misperception that kids will not respond to something because it's also for adults. I think that often that tends to get underestimated.

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.