Quotes About Misunderstanding

I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot of light and I have to shout at the top of my lungs for anyone to hear me and even when I do, I say the wrong thing or they don't really listen or they're just humouring me.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

I feel like I'm at the bottom of a well. I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot of light and I have to shout at the top of my lungs for anyone to hear me and even when I do, I say the wrong thing or they don't really listen or they're just humouring me.

Prophecy is slippery, dangerous, open to fatal misinterpretation.

But what good is being smart when you speak words and no one hears the ones you mean?

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

Nobody says what they really mean, especially if they love you.

It was about the hysteria, the mythmaking, and the misunderstanding that had twisted

Richard and his senior executives now devised a cunning strategy, which they outlined in a series of emails. If the true personality of oxycodone was misunderstood by America's doctors, the company would not correct that misunderstanding. Instead, they would exploit it.

It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

When a man gives you a rose what you see may not be what he intends. You may think he sees you as delicate or frail. Perhaps you dislike a suitor who considers you sweet and nothing else. Perhaps the stem is thorn, and you assume he thinks you likely to hurt a hand too quick to touch. But if he trims the thorns you might think he has no liking for a thing that can defend itself with sharpness. There's so many ways a thing can be interpreted.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Chronicler snapped. "You're just spouting nonsense now." "I'm spouting too much sense for you to understand," Bast said testily.

I would have chatted with Tempi, but trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well.

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

What is a whore?" Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with." Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you.

and he was absolutely not a selas sort.

Someone's parents," he said, "have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well.

You would think that would have helped. That a gift and clasped hands would make things right between us. But the silence was back now, stronger than before. Thick enough that you could spread it on your bread and eat it. There are some silences that even words cannot drive away. And while Denna was touching my hand, she wasn't holding it. There is a world of difference.

you might want to admit the possibility that you are impossibly thick when it comes to women.

Kist, crayle, en kote," he swore furiously. He threw down the metal tube where it rang sharply against the stone floor. "Kraemet brevetan Aerin!" I fought down the sudden urge to laugh. My Siaru wasn't perfect, but I was fairly certain Kilvin had said, Shit in God's beard.

If I had been born a couple hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon.

Bárbaros! —dijo enjugándose las lágrimas—. Se me había olvidado lo atrasados que sois. Mi rey poeta también era así. Tardó muchísimo en comprender la verdad: que existe una gran diferencia entre el pene y el corazón.