Quotes About Misunderstanding

Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak.

Occasionally she glanced at him, asking with her glance, 'Is this what I think?' "I understand,' she said, blushing. "What is this word?' he said, pointing to the "n' that signified the word "never." .... She wrote: t, I, c,g,n,o,a.

I'm not a goose, you're the gooses for crying over nothing

I don't understand," he said, understanding her.

Na maior parte das vezes, discutimos com ardor apenas porque não conseguimos de maneira alguma compreender o que exatamente o nosso adversário quer demonstrar.

Il pensiero le tornava sempre a un punto: che non c'era nessuno capace d'intendere, neanche lontanamente, tutto quello che lei intendeva, tutto quello che c'era in lei.

The child, a little girl with bare legs and long golden curls, was a being perfectly foreign to him, chiefly because she was trained quite otherwise than he wished her to be. There sprang up between the husband and wife the usual misunderstanding, without even the wish to understand each other, and then a silent warfare, hidden from outsiders and tempered by decorum.

It is pride that makes error and discord among men.

we all talked at the same time, not listening to one another, sometimes seconding and praising one another in order to be seconded and praised in turn, sometimes getting angry with one another—just as in a lunatic asylum.

A causa della presunzione con la quale parlava nessuno comprese se ciò che aveva detto fosse molto intelligente oppure molto stupido.

You're fool enough at all times, and when you start explaining things in Italian you're a fool three times as foolish,

Vera, judging only by her husband and generalizing from that observation, supposed that all men, though they understand nothing and are conceited and selfish, ascribe common sense to themselves alone.

Jamais le Christ n'aurait prononcé ces paroles s'il avait su le mauvais usage qu'on en ferait ; c'est tout ce qu'on a retenu de l'Évangile.

A huszadik század kezdetétÅ'l fogva rosszul megírt dráma volt.

Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

I think she was mistaken when she said I was torturing myself. I think that she interpreted me fragmentarily, which is worse than not to interpret at all.

Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.

I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.

My wife is a sex object. Every time I ask for sex, she objects.

I feel like a ghost, Edna. Like I've been buried alive. As far as the world's concerned, I was born the day I began to pass. I have no past, no loved ones, no memories, no me. No one really sees me or speaks to me or touches me.

you would only laugh at me, not because my thoughts were stupid, but because I was so foolish as to attempt to tell them to you. If

Sorry", Elliot said. "But you were kissing everybody else.

They think i'm at a special school for computer geeks and homosexuals.

Historical seen, said Alice, people have almost always have whrong when they have said that.