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Quotes About Misunderstanding

No, it's not gun-holder, it's Gunhilda.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason
understood what happened when men under extreme duress were given the latitude to express their dissatisfactions unchecked—how quickly a wrong, real or imagined, could magnify in men's minds, how a single misconstrued incident or comment could make its way through the ranks.
~ Hampton Sides
You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.
~ Hank Aaron
When he raised his head to look at her, she smiled at him. "Ye purred," she said, "just like a big tomcat." She laughed softly at the way he scowled at her despite the laughter brightening his eyes. "It wasnae a purr," he said. "It was a verra monly growl." Bridget
~ Hannah Howell
I only appear to be dead.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Freud büyük bir insan. Ama büyük bir insan?n yar?m yamalak anla??lmas? da çok tehlikelidir.
~ Hans Zinsser
Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled
~ Harlan Ellison
President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there.
~ Harold Holzer
Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.
~ Harold Lowman
I used to think, if there was anything in the world he did love, it was our dear little Eva; but he seems to be forgetting her very easily. I cannot ever get him to talk about her. I really did think he would show more feeling!" "Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me," said Miss Ophelia, oracularly.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
When we speak from the heart, we long for an ear to hear us, and we all have experienced that down feeling when we perceive ourselves as written off or misunderstood.
~ Harriet Lerner
Did your mam get those tulips? I sent them. I felt bad.' 'Yes, she did. Thank you for that.' 'OK...' Don't know how to answer that. I stole his phone. He hit me. I bought his mam tulips. It's hard to work out who owes whom exactly.
~ Harry Bingham
Now sometimes words can serve me well Sometimes words can go to hell For all that they do
~ Harry Chapin
He said, "You misunderstand. We did not kill the nuggies and the other folk hereabouts. They see us, and then they commonly die." "Of what?" I asked. "Of embarrassment.
~ Harry Turtledove
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
~ Harvey Fierstein
She likes me.  I can tell.  Problem is, she won't admit that to the boyfriends she brings over.
~ Harvey Havel
Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
~ Havelock Ellis
Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on the pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could but have confirmed the diagnosis.
~ Havelock Ellis
My mom insisted on saying such things, even though almost no one understood what she meant. My Dad sometimes called her Addlebrain because she read so many books.
~ Haven Kimmel
Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up
~ Heather Brewer
A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand them.
~ Heather Brewer
Christa, you're my wife. Why won't you give in to me?" "I don't know what you're talking about." He rose up on an elbow. "Yes, you do. You're flesh and blood, and you're very much a woman. And you're doing your damned best to deny me." "I didn't deny you anything," she said. "You did, and you know it.
~ Heather Graham
we all have a tendency to mistrust each other, to be suspicious of what we don't understand.
~ Heather Graham
It's like she looks at me and only sees what she wants to see. My father looks at me and sees only what he wants me to be.
~ Heather Henson