Quotes About Misunderstanding

What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

Rickman heard the plaintive note in Foster's voice, and they exchanged a quick, amused glance. Foster misunderstood. 'Him?' he exclaimed. 'The rugged Roman profile was all very well in Gladiator, but we're in the twenty-first century now, love.' 'Funny,' she shot back, 'I keep getting a whiff of caveman. Just so you know — the

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

She thinks you're stalking me." "Why the hell would I do that? I see too much of your ugly mug as it is.

Other men talked about being given the come-on by women they met at parties, but Robbie went to few parties and if he was given the come-on he would not have realized what was happening.

Women are terribly shocking to men, my dear. Don't understand them. Like them. It saves such a lot of hurting one way and the other.

If you didn't talk, I began to realize, people assumed you couldn't hear.

My own experiences as a woman tell me it's very possible to be mistaken for monstrous when one is only doing as men do: providing for and defending oneself.

But rumour is a creature with many heads and no body, and I had no way to hunt it, any more than I could smooth over matters with my new relations.

Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah.

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?" Shannon L. Alder

innuendos—and sometimes they weren't even

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.

This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

I sometimes feel like when you're talking to boys, they just hear certain keywords… But if you had a bubble above their head, they'd be thinking about game scores, masturbation and food.

I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.

Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don't understand you at all.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.