Quotes About Misinterpretation

Ben would have done anything for you." "I thought that meant he was an idiot." "No," Maravelle says. "It means you're an idiot.

You may think it is one thing, when in fact it is something else entirely: infatuation, loneliness, seduction.

Sam said, Hey, you want to get high? Amy had taken his words to mean You are so beautiful I am undone by you.

Since his earliest remembrances, Morveer seemed always to have had an uncanny aptitude for saying the wrong thing. When he meant to contribute, he would find he was complaining. When he intended to be solicitous, he would discover he was insulting. When he sought earnestly to provide support, he would be construed as undermining. He wanted only to be valued, respected, included, and yet somehow every attempt at good fellowship only made matters worse.

She put her hand on the back of his arm and squeezed. She hoped he read that squeeze as /Thank you for caring/ and not /God, I'm horny, we should really screw sometime./ In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the impression you were also offering a lay.

The boulder they had been standing on wasn't a boulder.

What good to your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]

What good do your words do if they can't understand you? [—Erykah Badu]

Lauren swallowed. "Lisette also told me... you weren't house-trained." He gave her a knowing look, but said only, "She had one out of two things right.

We can also lose our way if we misunderstand selflessness or emptiness. When we confuse relative reality with ultimate reality, or misinterpret ultimate reality as something that destroys the conventional world, then we fall into the trap of the nihilists who see no meaning or purpose in life. Then our view of emptiness is inspired by sadness and depression, and it becomes just another tool to shut everything down. Instead of looking at the world with joy, we see it as hopeless.

I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

When we say Shut up, Gat, that isn't what we mean at all.

Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her fertility for weakness. He supposed her "as clever as they make 'em," but no more, not realizing that she was penetrating to the depths of his soul, and approving of what she found there.

He was inaccurate because he was sensitive.

Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere.

A picture is worth a thousand words— unless the picture is distorted.

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.

If people are taught wrong, raised wrong, or haven't taken the Bible seriously enough, then they can go into academic error, emotional error, psychological error.

I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.

I often put my foot in it a little bit sometimes.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.