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Quotes About Misunderstanding

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.
~ Denis Johnson
What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?
~ Denis Johnson
tell about them kissing, are you? Ugh! What
~ Denise Domning
Lo que Martha Sahagún nunca entendió es que no se le criticaba por mujer sino por abusiva.
~ Denise Dresser
Thought you weren't coming with him," Wade said. She darted a glance at him, but he was looking over her head. "Thought you didn't care." "I don't." "Good.
~ Denise Hunter
Jake played the message again, catching the details this time. She was leaving the kids to him? Leaving them here? He swiped the phone off the table, and it hit the wall with a thump. This wasn't what he wanted. Yes, he wanted the kids, but not at Meridith's expense; they needed her. He needed her. Hadn't she listened to his messages? Didn't she know he loved her? If only he could make her believe it. How
~ Denise Hunter
Why don't you just tell Meridith who you are, man?" "Because she thinks the uncle is irresponsible and self-absorbed." Jake missed. Wyatt snorted. "She tell you that?" Jake scowled. Wyatt put up another shot, this one from the left side—Jake's weak spot. The ball swished through the net. "Besides, after I've been there all these weeks incognito . . . I don't think it's going to go over well." Meridith
~ Denise Hunter
Shay, wait." She shot him a look. He was getting that look a lot these days, and he felt his patience draining. "What? What did I do?" "Move." He could be stubborn too. "Not till you tell me what's wrong." "Nothing's wrong." "You could freeze water with those looks.
~ Denise Hunter
On occasion, people who tried to write family members living at Site X by addressing the letters to "Oak Ridge" got those letters returned to sender with a note reading simply: "There is no such place as Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
~ Denise Kiernan
I felt that when I'd wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people's minor needs for me or from the books I read incessantly. It was like I'd found myself, and I was someone who had never had the things I really wanted, plainly never would, and whom no one would fully comprehend.
~ Dennis Cooper
if I had known to what use they [Southerners] were going to put my song, I will be damned if I'd have written it.
~ Dennis McNally
No matter what you say or how many times you say, people always hear what they want to hear.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Nous nous trouvons parfois debout soit dans le milieu de malentendu malheureux, ou entrer dans totalement involontairement. Maletendus peuvent souvent survenir en raison de notre lecture indue entre les lignes, ou d'entendre les non-dits. parfois, il est prudent d'accepter et de confiance, et de prendre tout à sa valeur nominale; malgré tant de mensonges et de tromperies flagrantes tout autour.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Two people went on a Bear hunting trip. When they hit the highway, they saw the sign 'Bear left'. So they immediately took the next exit and went home.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
We occasionally find ourselves either standing in the midst of miserable misunderstanding, or stepping into it totally unintentionally. Misunderstandings can often arise because of our undue reading between the lines, or hearing the unspoken words. Sometimes it's prudent to accept and trust, and take everything at its face value, despite so much of deceit and blatant lies all around.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.
~ Derek Landy
We're not really intruding," he called down. "This is all a big misunderstanding." "Stop right there!" shouted one of them. Skulduggery held his hand to an ear he didn't have. "What's that?" "Stop!" "Keep going?" "STOP!" "OK, we'll keep going.
~ Derek Landy
An untied shoelace can be dangerous,' he said. 'I could have tripped.' She stared at him. A moment dragged by. 'I'm joking,' he said at last. She relaxed. 'Really?' 'Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful.
~ Derek Landy
So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its just kind of silly even for us...
~ Derek Landy
I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.' 'My accent?' 'It is quite silly.' 'So you can't understand me?' 'Not a word.' 'Then how did you understand that?' 'I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?' 'That's right.' 'You understood that, though.' 'Not at all.' The American glowered.
~ Derek Landy
You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last present you gave me was a stick." "You wanted a weapon." "It was a stick." "It had a bow on it." "It was a stick." "I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.
~ Derek Landy
Skulduggery stood among the ruins of what had once been a sofa. Valkyrie raised an eyebrow. 'I was trying to make up the sofa bed so you could get some rest,' he explained, and pointed to the second sofa across the room. 'Unfortunately, it would appear that that is the sofa bed, and this, apparently, is just a sofa.
~ Derek Landy
He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It's not the one you're thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop." She frowned. "Wait that's not a word.
~ Derek Landy