Quotes About Misunderstanding

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

I think I might get laid more...by my dad.

Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you're the one that raised me.

Is it him?" Dad asked. "Did he get you into trouble?" "Not me," Shane said. "I've just got that kind of face.

I once punched a bloke in the face for saying 'Hawk the Slayer' was rubbish, when what I should have said 'Dad, you're wrong.'

Teddy said it was a hat, So I put it on. Now dad is saying, "where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?

We're not dating," Alec said again. "Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?

You ever been on a date so bad, the girl makes you drop her off at another dude's house?

Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes.

I had a date with an inflatable girl. Now I got an inflatable guy looking for me.

Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

When he said to give him the sword, I don't think he meant for you to stick it in his guts.

What's 'the shit'?" "The picture we have of one another. Layers and layers of misunderstanding. The picture we have of ourselves. Useless. Presumptuous. Completely cocked-up. Only we go ahead and we live by these pictures. 'That's what she is, that's what he is, this is what I am. This is what happened, this is why it happened—

I discovered the whitewashed wall beneath the window slick and syrupy with an abundance of goo. Since I didn't know what masturbation was, I of course didn't know what ejaculate was. I thought it was pus. I thought it was phlegm. I didn't know what to think, except that it was something terrible.

It's not your fault that you don't know what Gentiles think when they read something like this.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.