Quotes About Misunderstanding

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.

Everybody in this public arena makes statements and gets interpreted different ways.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.

A big barrier to people getting help with online harassment is the general attitude either that it's not a real issue - that it's 'only' online - or that it's limited to someone saying they don't like you, and all of that stems from a basic misunderstanding of what we mean when we say 'online harassment.'

Because I'm a bald, dim-witted writer, people think I couldn't possibly be her husband, so they occasionally confuse me for someone more glamorous. At O'Hare airport, a man asked if he could take Rebecca's photo. When I reflexively stepped away, he said, 'No, no, no. I want your picture too, Andre Agassi.'

We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live.

Sometimes the best way to communicate something is to explain what happens in the absence of it.

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work, I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

While the hardware of civilization - iron pots, blankets, guns - was welcomed by Native people, the software of Protestantism and Catholicism - original sin, universal damnation, atonement, and subligation - was not, and Europeans were perplexed, offended, and incensed that Native peoples had the temerity to take their goods and return their gods.

At the root of all this is an inability among laypeople to understand that experts being wrong on occasion about certain issues is not the same thing as experts being wrong consistently on everything. The fact of the matter is that experts are more often right than wrong, especially on essential matters of fact. And yet the public constantly searches for the loopholes in expert knowledge that will allow them to disregard all expert advice they don't like. In

In 1943, incoming college freshmen—only 6 percent of whom could list the original thirteen colonies—named Abraham Lincoln as the first president and the one who "emaciated [sic] the slaves." The

You blind, son? You see a 'ma'am' here? I look like a white lady to you?" It had broken his heart. A

This has led some to misunderstand him as claiming that it doesn't matter what you believe so long as you believe it. Though scarcely espousing religious relativism, as a deeply committed Christian, Kierkegaard was more concerned with combating lukewarm or purely nominal religious belief than with apologetics.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

They feared him, and because they feared him, they hated him. ....You see, they didn't understand that really he had one of the kindest hearts in the world; and he didn't understand that they hated him just because they didn't know him.

me up," she mumbled. "She didn't say who. I just assumed . . ." She took in the bemused way he was looking at her. "I'm sorry." He shook his head. "No, it's okay. Why sorry? Nothing wrong

Nuestros problemas no surgen porque los otros no sean lo que pensamos que eran, sino porque erróneamente pensamos que eran algo que no son.

Isn't it obvious?" "Apparently not." "I'm not just writing about you," said Shane. "I'm writing to you.

didn't leave you," he said finally. "What?" "Your mom never said anything?" "No," she said, her voice cracking, pleading. "What happened?" "I didn't leave you." Confusion flooded her face. "I would never have left you. It was…your mom. She sent me away.

Sickness wasn't sexy. And her disability was invisible—she wasn't missing a limb or in a full-body cast. Her level of suffering seemed impossible for others to fathom.

I was the least impressed with, a woman who thought Henry Miller was a police sitcom from the seventies.

With women, you don't get to pick the meaning of what you mean. They do. All men understand this.

Do not disturb!' 'No molestar!'—ever get the idea some things aren't translating right?