Quotes About Misunderstanding

No one can penetrate silence; they can only interpret what is said. However, silence will create an abundance of speculative suppositions.

Beans is a thot

If there's one thing that really spoils [fill in blank with anything good], it's OTHER PEOPLE.

But "ma'am" doesn't translate in the North, where it just startles and offends.

One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath. 'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?

When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that "You don't have to explain something you haven't said

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

he seemed to have been driving for hours . . . going round and round in large or small circles, asking the way and being unable to understand the answers (when answers were vouchsafed), all the time seemingly more off-course than ever.

Most people feel they lack the intelligence to find the right way for them, but this is merely misunderstanding. Intelligence has nothing to do with college degrees or reading books. True intelligence is a willingness to exchange a fallacy for a fact.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches.

We don't always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

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

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

He also became known as one who was quick to take offense, even if spoken to in jest.

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

The problem is, when things go verbal, you drop out the detail.

words have that insidious ability to be interpreted according to the other person's mood and insecurities.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

Apparently Blank thinks I am a nice accommodating guy, please explain to him that I am a son of a bitch

Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained through ignorance.