Quotes About Misinterpretation

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

I apologize if my limbic system has misinterpreted your gesture of emotional support.

You think that this talk is tough? I tell you this: You have bastardized the Word of God in order to justify your fears and rationalize your insane treatment of each other. You will make God say whatever you need God to say in order to continue limiting each other, hurting each other, and killing each other in My name.

You were spying on us? It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death. He wasn't, Ronnie assured him. I'm just saying how it looked. She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older.

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.

Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.

Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

It irks me when I read the narrative that 'Dwane is salty.' I can't say anything right.

on the first night of the program. She waltzed around the set topless. She asked what asparagus was and said, "Rio de Janeiro, ain't that a person?" She referred to East Anglia as "East Angular," thought Portugal was in Spain, and complained that she was

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that they think of him as being rather more to the left than he really is.

am colored red and blue and yellow and every other hue of the rainbow. I am long and short, thick and thin, and I often rest coiled up. I can eat a hundred sheep in a row and still be hungry. What am I? A dragon, of course, she said without hesitation. No, a woolen rug.

He said the Iroquois was "completed and OK." Neither of those things were true.

Her ÅŸeyin, hiçbir ÅŸey anlamayan birinin sözcükleri arac?l???yla anla??lmas?n? saÄŸlamak.

No," I said. "You're not a Yankee imperialist?" she prodded. "Certainly not," I told her. "I come from Ireland." "Holland," she said, frowning. "No

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

Cuando lo vieron ganar dinero, dijeron: es un comerciante. Cuando lo vieron repartir el dinero, dijeron: es un ambicioso. Cuando lo vieron rechazar los honores, dijeron: es un aventurero. Cuando lo vieron rechazar el trato social, dijeron: es un borrico.

You got the library wrong, Eva.

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

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.

people who bought a copy of Islam for Dummies on their way to join ISIS.

The apparency of an answer can be mistaken for the answer.' A parallel is that 'the apparency of a result can be mistaken for the result.

You know when most girls say they want a big rock, they dont mean, you know, literally a big rock ." -Clary to Jace, pg.313-

Come on," he said. "Let's get back to Alec before he decides Isabelle and Simon are having sex off in the caves and starts freaking out.