Quotes About Misinterpretation

Mi sentivo il cuore pesante… e ci separammo senza esserci compresi. Come del resto nessuno, a questo mondo, comprende facilmente l'altro.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text.

He'll never understand or see, they'll never give him what they gave us, he'll step in the wrong places and look when he should look away, never see doors or know turnings; wait and see, you just wait and see";

There have been people who have done things in the name of Christ they never should have done...not everything done in the name of Christ should, in point of fact, be attributed to Christianity. It's important to remember that it's not Jesus' teaching that are at fault here; it's the actions of those who, for whatever reason, greatly strayed from what he clearly taught...

We look at a person and see the person we want to see. I've had to deal with that my whole life, walking in a room and girls thinking I'm going to steal their boyfriends!

You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!

It's easy enough to mistake being grateful for being in love.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.

A frequent charge made against "Antoinette" was that she was bathed in the blood of the French people; the truth of it was, of course, exactly the other way round.

A woman is usually five feet above the ground and ten feet underground, so her true intention behind an action is not often correctly decoded or found by men.

Bigger the toe or finger's nail of the female, higher the chance that the sensible male will fail to make her understand the point that to her truly beneficial.

Daughter-in-law often calls soundlessly her mother-in-law a witch and mother-in-law regularly tells silently her daughter-in-law a bitch and this happens in every house.

The most deplorable part of people relationship is that most even can't distinctly differentiate between compliments and complaints.

In a word, the Lord's Prayer is the greatest martyr on earth (as are the name and Word of God). Everybody tortures and abuses it; few take comfort and joy in its proper use.

Paraphrased for brevity: Those who think a HERILE government is the same as a regal government or that of a large family or of a city are mistaken.

People are quick to pigeonhole you.

Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

If people want to watch a movie about a fox and rabbit becoming friends and turn that into an evil, agenda-pushing practice, then what can you say?

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.

Sometimes I don't use the words 'will' and 'want' in the right way. The German word 'will' is the English word 'want,' so that's a little bit of the problem.