Quotes About Misunderstanding

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

And once again Einar became exhausted by the world failing to know who he was.

Natalie and François met on the street. It's always a tricky thing when a man comes up to a woman. She's bound to wonder, Is that what he spends his time doing? Quite often the men are going to claim that it's the first time.

Durant toutes ces années, les femmes se reposaient dans l'arrière-chambre de son excitation . Il les regardait, les admirait, mais ne les désirait pas. Enfin, soyons francs, quand Hector pensait ne pas désirer les femmes, il pensait surtout qu'il ne pouvait susciter le désir en elles.

Compliance with legitimate authority was also apparent in the strange case of the "rectal ear ache" (Cohen & Davis, 1981). A doctor ordered eardrops for a patient suffering infection in the right ear. On the prescription, the doctor abbreviated "place in right ear" as "place in R ear." Reading the order, the compliant nurse put the required drops in the compliant patient's rectum.

He told himself she wasn't really such a bad person, she was just a pest, she was sticky, there was something misplaced in her make-up, something that kept her from fading clear of people when they wanted to be in the clear.

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

Maya Soetoro-Ng declined comment to a reporter, but a family friend explained that "she was furious" over Barack's comments about their grandmother. His characterization of her "seemed completely gratuitous, even cruel," one critic rightly thought, and one of the late Stanley Dunham's close friends acidly remarked, "I have a far better opinion of both Stan and Madelyn than I have heard from Barry's speeches.

I now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile.

have no idea who she was," Brandell said, "although I did recognize her from somewhere—I had the feeling that it was something bad. She was tattooed and pierced and all that crap and looked like a heavy rocker or goth or punk, plus she was as thin as hell.

Assume makes an ass out of you and me.

Don't you mean the Vierge Noire, the Black Virgin?" "Uh, yes. Isn't that what I was talking about?" "Daveed, a verge is a penis.

We cannot read each other's hearts, and sadly, silence is its own pervasive pastime. We are disposed more to assuming masks than we are to revealing the tenderness and freight within that might transform the world. More than any other time in history it seems the man and woman standing in close proximity to each other in a subway car are as far away from each other as two galaxies.

God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably... I am actually a male!

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god, either.

Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Jews are a perverse people, accursed by God forever.

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.