Quotes About Misunderstanding

I do not refute the divine, but only its false depiction, and my thinking is maligned by any who say otherwise.

You English can't give a compliment. Not a real one. You don't know how to do it.

He'd not known what was happening to us in Lisbon, Constantina. The full truth of our situation hadn't been told of in England

But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.

You've always mistaken my absolute self-assurance for profound thought.

I thought it was of a heart attack, but then I realized no one ever said as much.

Let me see if I have this straight. You were going to move out, although you didn't want to. Is that right?" She nodded. "Why?" "Because I wanted you to ask me to stay." "Ah, I understand now. You do one thing, hoping I'll respond by asking you to do the opposite." She shrugged, realizing how silly it sounded in the cold light of reason. "I… guess so.

The people who hate us can't see through the wall.

frowned. Help you out, how? Unless you're

Thought you didn't like red hair. One of Drew's dimples kicked in as he draped an arm about Grandma's shoulder. Must have me confused with someone else, but I'm not surprised. Seems to happen to most of the older set at some point or other.

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The three of us had formed a group based on something erroneous, some basic misunderstanding that hadn't yet come to light, and so we kept on in one another's company, going to bars and having conversations.

If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child? she demanded of Jamie. Has she had an accident o' some sort? No, it's only she's married me, he said, though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may.

She supposed that it it perhaps not fair to quarrel with someone on the basis of what you thought they were thinking

Is that you, Geordie?" he asked, not turning around. He was dressed in shirt and breeches, and had a small tool of some kind in his hand, with which he was doing something to the innards of the press. "Took ye long enough. Did ye get the—" "It isn't Geordie," I said. My voice was higher than usual. "It's me," I said.

the ancient savagery that men call motherhood, who mistake its tenderness for weakness.

Now they think you're mad; then they thought you were a witch. Cultural mores

You do know that women aren't rational, don't you?" "I do. Neither are men." "Well, you have a point

Frenchman wouldn't seem so dangerous to them. Perhaps. He blinked hard to clear his vision, and was opening his mouth

Murtagh was one of those men who always looked a bit startled to find that women had voices

If either of them stops shouting long enough to hear the other, they'll be hurting each other's feelings.