Quotes About Misconception

A harem is not a brothel, as so many Westerners erroneously believe. It is merely the women's living quarters. Male relatives can join them -- but no male nonrelatives may do so. It is hardly a den of eroticism.

L'ennemi est con, il croit que c'est nous l'ennemi alors que c'est lui

Soon his tears abated, but she continued to hold him, much as she had held his successor. There were times when men of any age needed the special favor of a woman's embrace. It was too bad that people of either sex tended to confuse this with sex.

Well, Socrates, it's by no means uncommon for people to say what is not correct.

cuenta Estesí­coro que, por ignorancia de la verdad, se luchó ante Troya en torno a la apariencia de Helena?

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken.

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB

The weather isn't what you think it is. Not by a long shot.

I know, not what you were expecting am I? Everybody says that. Including my own family.

People are like that, judging you before they know you.

no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

I'm saying you have me nestled so comfortingly in your idea of who I am, you have no idea who I actually am.

Mousy. It was the only word Travis could think to describe Mary Warner when she stepped off the plane. His heart sank and took a moment to rally itself. Long legs, that was all he'd asked for, and what did he get? Minnie Mouse.

But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.

Therefore, there is no issue here of a holy text depicting people being ordered by their God to kill infidels or innocents.

Women, as he had explained to me at the paddock, have no natural appreciation for horses, and are therefore difficult to talk to.

I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.

Grime don't mean nothing, we never called it grime. It's just a word someone associated with us. I wouldn't say all my music's grimy.

I think people always assume that every team has great intangibles, and that's not necessarily right.

I think that people assume when they meet me that I'm going to judge what they're wearing.

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.

It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.