Quotes About Misinterpretation

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

I blamed the Bible, when its words were not at fault, only the way they're interpretedby those too willingto wield them like chain saws, cutting others off at the knees.

A real 'clash of civilisations' is like the proverbial dialogue of the deaf.

The danger of misinterpretation is greatest, of course, among speakers who actually speak different native tongues, or come from different cultural backgrounds, because cultural difference necessarily implies different assumptions about natural and obvious ways to be polite.

Found something?" "No, sorry. I thought I had, but, no, it turned out to be, uh… more floor.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

It's just like Kiernan Kane to send an urgent message hidden in an indecipherable mess of prophetic rhyme. By the time we've figured out what the thing means, we'll be in the middle of danger only to realize that every assumption we made was completely wrong.

chest—which just showed she knew crap all about Shifters. None of them were nice. "I

But Hunter did sneeze, and what I'd thought was his concern for me had actually been a presneeze expression.

Can you put your hands on my crotch?" "Why, hell no, I cannot." I didn't remember anything like this happening in Pride and Prejudice .

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. You can never just Say. The. Thing.

What are we doing?" Asher helped himself to a seat at my table. "We aren't doing anything," I told him bluntly. "My mistake. I thought we were brooding in Henry's general direction. Like so." He adopted stormy countenance, then gestured to me. "Yours is better." "Go away, Asher." "You say go away, I hear be my bosom buddy." He gave an elaborate shrug. "Seriously, though: friendship bracelets—yea or nay?

Zodra hij me zijn kant op zag komen, excuseerde hij zich bij de groep met wie hij stond te praten en verdween hij het jongenstoilet in. Waarschijnlijk dacht hij dat hij me daarmee had afgeschud. Blijkbaar kende hij me niet heel goed.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

Unlike the hot line frequently depicted in Hollywood films, the new system didn't provide a special telephone for the president to use in an emergency. It relied on Teletype machines that could send text quickly and securely. Written statements were considered easier to translate, more deliberate, and less subject to misinterpretation than verbal ones. Every

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

People judge what they do not understand

Vienas piktas sakinys, perpasakotas nepalankiai, pagimdo baisiausi? prieš?. "Jei sužinotume, k? apie mus kiti kalba, niekas su niekuo nesikalb?t?." Nelaim?, anks?iau ar v?liau mes vis tiek sužinome tai, k? kiti kalba apie mus.

All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.