Quotes About Misunderstanding

Henry. Please. I was on the verge of tears. What's the matter with you? Have you lost your mind? Don't you understand what's going on? He stood up, dusted his hands on his trousers.

All my life, people have taken my shyness for sullenness, snobbery, bad temper of one sort or another. Stop looking so superior! my father sometimes used to shout at me when I was eating, watching television, or otherwise minding my own business. But this facial cast of mine (that's what I think it is, really, a way my mouth has of turning down at the corners, it has little to do with my actual moods) has worked as often to my favor as to my disadvantage.

When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.)

I hear the cock woke you up." Eve choked on her coffee. "What?" "Not that kind of cock." Sinead sent a sparkling look over her shoulder. "Though if that's true as well, good for you. I meant the rooster.

WAITER: [serving Jack's drink] ... and one Shirley Temple. JACK: [sips drink] Wait a minute! You put Scotch in this Shirley Temple! WAITER: She's a big girl, now.

She could say 'no' quicker than any woman I ever knew, and none of them ever meant 'yes'.

never attribute to malice that which could be explained by stupidity.

Soon after I left the hospital, I was wearing a comfortable white T-shirt and sweatpants. A man tossed a euro in my lap as he passed. He thought I was homeless.

I know I'm not perfect, but I didn't think it was fair that they told me one thing and wrote down another.

Love is the most abused word in history. It is, simply, caring more for others than you do for yourself.

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Teachers had told her she was intelligent. Friends had said so too, often slightly accusatory as if being intelligent had made her too different to be quite comfortable with.

Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing.

If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised

Then for a moment like so many times before this I lost the words. Watched them drop . . . No. Dissipate . . . from the air between us. Dissipate. The word has shown up on my SAT prep tests again and again until it landed in this room with us. Between my mother. And me.

We watched them dip-walk away, too young to know how to respond. The four of us together weren't something they understood. They understood girls alone, folding their arms across their breasts, praying for invisibility.

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable

Disagreement is not the conflict between one who says white and another who says black. It is the conflict between one who says white and another who also says white but does not understand the same thing by it.

J'accepte que ce que je dis n'est pas toujours ce qui est entendu et que ce que j'entends n'est pas forcément ce qui est dit.

Sincopele în comunicare sunt f?cute dintr-o prea mare sensibilitate la reac?iile celuilalt, din intoleran?? la suferin??, la dezam?gire sau la mânia celuilalt. Dintr-o prea mare reac?ie la reac?ie.

Tocmai aceast? convingere c? trebuie s?-l satisfaci pe cel?lalt ne împiedic? s? primim pur ?i simplu anumite cuvinte, f?r? a face presupuneri. În loc s? ascult?m pur ?i simplu. s? primim, ne lans?m în c?utare de r?spunsuri, de solu?ii, în a analiza problema pe toate p?r?ile. Iar cel?lalt, din dorin?a de a evita aceste reac?ii previzibile, nu va îndr?zni s? se exprime, se va închide în t?cere.

Resentimentul se na?te din neacceptarea faptului c? dorin?ele nu mi s-au realizat, c? ceea ce am spus nu a fost în?eles, c? a?tept?rile mi-au fost în?elate, c? proiectele mi-au fost stricate sau amânate, c? via?a nu se ajusteaz? dup? percep?ia mea.