Quotes About Misinterpretation

Eliminate lobbyists. Eliminate polls. It might even eliminate Congress. If we can know the will of the people at any time, without filter, without misinterpretation or bastardization, wouldn't it eliminate much of Washington?

But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.

Look at social media. I could post something about saving orphans and I'd be attacked as a sex-trafficking pedophile. People are such animals online.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally.

Jumping to Conclusions. This is where you jump to painful and upsetting conclusions that aren't really supported by the facts. There are two common versions of this distortion:

it occurred that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff--they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip from some reason.

and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any other manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff—they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip for some reason.

Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril-explored looked up to find horrified expressions on the video-faces at the other end. All of which resulted in videophonic stress.

Y tomaba mi silencio por aprobación. La esencia del abismo era que ella creía que no existía ningún abismo

You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.

Do you know me, my lord?' Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

He said in exasperation, "Goddamn it, you should know I'm not used to dealing with women! You search the earth to find some special secret feminine grievance to gnaw over for months on end and then produce it coolly on the mat to explain all the irrational hedging and dodging of an entire winter—

he must have thought: this is a young fellow and a stupid German besides - that's just how all French speak of the Germans - he will be guite content with this - but the stupid German was not content (...).

She assured me that it wasn't so much that she didn't like me but thought I was a featherbrain, her mother's lollipop, sleepwalking through an embarrassing hustle obvious as the Turk con.

If love was red then she was colour blind.

Sometimes,the word FINE could simply mean FORGET IT..NOT EXPOSING .

They condemn what they do not understand.

After her three-second celebratory dance on center court at the All England Club, the American media reported, "And there was Serena … Crip-Walking all over the most lily-white place in the world…. You couldn't help but shake your head…. What Serena did was akin to cracking a tasteless, X-rated joke inside a church…. What she did was immature and classless.

Many people are misquoted not by the language that they speak, but by the language of their behaviors that protrude their personalities.

Whoever said "Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds" was as wrong as he was funny,

Dogs, by this same logic, bark at what they cannot understand.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

They all fired into the air, no doubt about it, said the old man with the fur cap, but it was the air that happened to be in people's lung.

Men will never understand it till they stop confusing love with sex, which will be never. (pp54)