Quotes About Misunderstanding

We interpret the actions of others as malicious when they might be totally innocent. And how we interpret their actions is what upsets us.

There can only be a need for forgiveness when first there is blame. And there can only be blame, when first there is misunderstanding.

You carry about in your own selfish world completely oblivious to the things that really upset me and then wonder what it is you've done wrong.

For some reason, cats are usually addressed familiarly, though no cat has ever drunk bruderschaft with anyone.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

Sometimes ... when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face. (Following summit meeting with Ronald Reagan)

He who avoids misunderstandings, Amused at the play of his own mind, Is ever joyful.

Leah looked perpetually frightened in the streets, and both she and Joseph were treated like idiots by their customers, who cared little that the hardworking pair were fluent and literate in another language.

It wasn't that a white person couldn't comprehend what it was like to be in her skin, but Jay, in his unyielding American optimism, refused to see that she came from a culture where good intentions and clear talk wouldn't cover all wounds. It didn't work that way with her parents, anyway. They were brokenhearted Koreans—that wasn't Jay's fault, but how was he supposed to understand their kind of anguish?

If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.

Maybe you accidentally bought this thinking it was the Malala book.

I am so accustomed to the young mom phenomenon, that when I saw the poster for The Proposal I wondered for a second if the proposal in the movie was Ryan Reynolds suggesting he send his mother, Sandra Bullock, to an old-age home.

Luckily the rope fiasco was eclipsed, several weeks later, when I accidentally pronounced jalapeño with a hard j in front of Vijay, Hondo, and some other campers. I'd only ever seen it printed on the side of a can of salsa. "You think it's ja-lapeno?!" Hondo asked, incredulous. I did.

It had taken her keying Irene's car on the last day of school for him to figure out she was loony.

My mom and I have always had issues.

He tried to press the machine into my hands, but I stepped back. He was getting too close, and besides, I didn't know what this meant. Was he trying to sell me the machine? Was he giving it to me? I had heard that in America, if a girl accepted a ring from a boy, it meant she would marry him. What about accepting a tape-playing machine? Did it mean I might have to dance with him?

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I'm stealing, every man thinks I'm a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I'm a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.

A man asked for an early meal. His wife said: "It is for supper.

Your such a bot!!!

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

People think, 'Hey, I love kids, I want to write children's books.' But they think children are happy. That's their first mistake.

La belleza de la literatura reside en los malentendidos.

Hubo un tiempo, no muy remoto aún, en el que los villanos eran gente buena. Se llamaban «villanos» porque vivían en una villa. Pero, como otras palabras transformadas por el azar del tiempo, el carácter humilde e ignorante de los villanos se convirtió en sinónimo de indecencia, grosería y maldad. Tal parece que ni los propios villanos comprenden por qué la historia los ha convertido en malos.