Quotes About Misunderstanding

Too often, teachers and professors misrepresent conservative viewpoints, and intentionally muddle what it means to be a conservative.

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold.

People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.

To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.

I've been called a villain and things like that, but I never put the blame on editing.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

People often think I've played the villain more times than I have.

You were turning up to games and one or two people would boo. Then a few more would join in. I was painted as the villain of darts. I accepted it to a certain extent. But it got a bit over the top.

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

Up until now, the biggest question in society about video games has been what to do about violent games. But it's almost like society in general considers video games to be something of a nuisance, that they want to toss into the garbage can.

There were lots of perceptions about me, right from being gay to casting couch to being a drunkard to getting violent, none of what I am in real life.

I was jailed for using words that I still dispute. Anyone who's ever met me will tell you that I'm not a violent person.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

People thought we were intimidating, especially once we'd had a few drinks, but when I look back we were virtually on top of each other, holding hands. We sounded so stupid.

Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

My biggest concern is the abundance of public doubt and misunderstanding when it comes to Twitter's vision and the near future for the service.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

You didn't fall in love with me before our first date, when I told you I had a six-year-old," I say. "You knew what to do then, didn't you?" More suffocating silence. As you've probably guessed, this conversation goes nowhere.

I have a feeling that there's a lot of buried love between John and Margo because I know this: love can often look like so many things that don't seem like love.

Remy didn't suggest an ounce of discourtesy, but only had a different way of talking. It's something Chester'd learned, how a person's words did not always disclose the intention of his heart. He'd been called fine things by people who feared and loathed him, and slanderous things by people who thought well on him but were ignorant.

She thought men and women belonged to different races and any getting together was worse than