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Quotes About Misunderstanding

Frost is angry because I tried to give him some advice. He was dancing as Frostyev in his Goblinovski Festival Ballet, and there were a few simple ways that he could have improved his style. I was trying to help, but he took it very badly.
~ Daisy Meadows
Suddenly, Rachel dropped the toy and the girls stared at each other, horrified. We never argue! said Kirsty, her voice trembling a little. What's wrong? It must be because of the missing tiara, said Rachel. Even we can't play well together! I'm sorry, said Kirsty. I didn't mean to argue with you. I didn't either, said Rachel. I'm sorry, too.
~ Daisy Meadows
Buddha said: 'Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love,' and a misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.
~ Dale Carnegie
Try to build bridges of understanding. Don't build higher barriers of misunderstanding.
~ Dale Carnegie
Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.
~ Dale Carnegie
Who gets the change? the clerk asked. You or...your fella? Oh, he's not my boyfriend, I said. He's my mother.
~ Wally Lamb
Ma bent over and kissed Grandma, who sat ramrod straight in her chair and didn't respond. "Don't wait up for me, now," Ma laughed. "Do-on't worry," Grandma answered, rolling her eyes at the TV.
~ Wally Lamb
The truth, as I saw it, was that Daddy wouldn't have left if she hadn't always been Miss Doom and Gloom. "Pretty?" she said. "Really?" "Yeah, pretty ugly." Her lip shook. She reached for her spray. "God, I was only kidding," I said. "Can't you even take a joke?
~ Wally Lamb
What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.
~ Walter Dean Myers
She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight. --perhaps the best line from Shooter
~ Walter Dean Myers
They're strangers but they still find reasons to hurt each other.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Jobs later said that he never read the novel. "I heard it was about me," he told me, "and if it was about me, I would have gotten really pissed off, and I didn't want to get pissed at my sister, so I didn't read
~ Walter Isaacson
Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, That was some impressive killing you did. Naked too. I hope I didn't embarrass Office Palmer. She said that after all she heard about you she thought your johnson would be bigger. Tell her that the air conditioner was on.
~ Walter Mosley
Of course I don't care if you're bleeding! I'm fucking autistic !
~ Warren Ellis
But, Steven!" my mom said, then threw her hands in the air.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
~ Charles Kettering
I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.
~ Charles M. Schulz
The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother...
~ Charles M. Schulz
interpretando como estupidez lo que era un rasgo de la bondad de su alma.
~ Charles Perrault
I tried not to show much interest in his story after the way he had dozed while I was telling mine. It didn't matter, because he paid no attention to other people anyway. He spoke conversational English to all the Mexicans along the way and never seemed to notice that they couldn't understand a word he said.
~ Charles Portis
He took Ed for a Southerner and tried to stay clear of him.
~ Charles Portis
My manager IMs me. We get along pretty well. His name is Phil. Phil is an old copy of Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0. His passive-aggressive is set to low. Whoever configured him did me a solid. The only thing, and this isn't really that big a deal, is that Phil thinks he's a real person. He likes to talk sports, and tease me about the cute girl in Dispatch, whom I always have to remind him I've never met, never even seen.
~ Charles Yu
The great shame of your life that you can't speak his language, not really, not fluently.
~ Charles Yu