Quotes About Misunderstanding

In the final analysis,power is a misunderstanding: you think you know then you realize you have made a thumping mistake.

I'll never understand why the survivors of a tragedy feel compelled to make people believe they're more to be pitied than the ones who didn't make it.

the Irish priests sometimes considered their French-Canadian counterparts primitives.)

Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a corkscrew to open a bottle of champagne?

the ring of weapons aimed directly at the Jeep was impressive. "I thought you said he was your friend," Mack said. "Well, we've been growing apart recently," Bullfinch said.

I don't like it when really smart people do things that seem dumb. Makes me think I'm figuring something wrong.

They love me for what I'm not. They hate me for what I am.

Whatever people say you are, that is what you're not.

Why me? All we do is argue." "That's why I want you

Nine times out of ten, people pick the wrong food. No, it's not the sugar (GI = 68), it's not the candy bar (GI = 55), and it's not the banana (GI = 54). It's the whole-wheat bread at a whopping GI of 71, putting it on par with white bread (so

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

The ability to hear someone is really about trust, not simply about communication. A trust issue always lurks beneath a communication difficulty.

I admire your work and was a big fan of your lecture, so the misunderstanding between us is particularly painful to me. I take these issues very seriously and am, I think, alert to nuances in this regard, as I hope my work demonstrates.

Zis David Suchet, he zinks he knows me, but, of course, he does not. He is clever, but I am brilliant.

What did Mary Ann tell Dan after she heard about the shootings? 'No, Dan, I said to get milk and macaroni, not Milk and Moscone.

They didn't believe me," I exclaimed when I saw Gary. "I told the truth, but they didn't want to hear!

if you give directions for a living, then it's pretty hard to follow them.

Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?" "Don't be silly," Berry scolded. "It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he got a little miffed. No big deal.

Sometimes I come to hate people because they can't see where I am. I've gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form; my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat.

When a man plans, a woman laughs.

I picked up the phone and dialed up John on his cell. One ring, and then- "I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE, VINNY!" "John?" "Oh, Dave. Sorry. I had been having a heated argument here on my phone and then I hung up in disgust. Then when the phone rang I just assumed, without checking, that it was the person I was having an argument with so I just blindly shouted insults into the phone. How embarrassing." "I'm getting sick of that one, John.

At this point, John flung himself to the ground and screamed, "YOU SHOT ME! AAARRRRGHHH!" Not a shot had been fired. I rushed to John's side. "You shot him! He has four kids! Or should I say, four orphans.

What's up. This is Dave, the one you saw in your hallway. He's not a psychotic killer or anything," he lied

You know the Tower of Babel, right? You went to Sunday School?" "Yeah, sure. In ancient times everybody on earth spoke the same language, then they decided to build a tower that would reach all the way up to heaven. Then God cursed everybody on the job site to each speak a different language to mess them up.