Quotes About Misinterpretation

Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

When he said to give him the sword, I don't think he meant for you to stick it in his guts.

L'ennemi est con, il croit que c'est nous l'ennemi alors que c'est lui

But the text recorded it as 'Hell, you're in my hand'—an H instead of a W." Irene grimaced. "You mean everyone who sees that text will believe my husband swore at his sword?" "I'm afraid so," Chem said apologetically.

Well, Socrates, it's by no means uncommon for people to say what is not correct.

Was it it possible that I thought a pile of clothes was a smiling girl?' - Amanda Benson

Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren't there, thank God.

The weather isn't what you think it is. Not by a long shot.

I'm saying you have me nestled so comfortingly in your idea of who I am, you have no idea who I actually am.

Don't make assumptions. Ask and let me explain. Don't decide what you think I feel.

She was totally deceived into thinking that her female intuition, sensitivity, and passions were spirituality. She had no idea that she was a woman in total rebellion against God.

Drogi panie, ?ycie upÅ'ywa na samych qui pro quo! SÄ… qui pro quo miÅ'oÅ›ci, qui pro quo przyja?ni, qui pro quo polityki, finansów, KoÅ›cioÅ'a, urzÄ™du, handlu, ?on, m??ów...

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.

I don't like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.

People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.

Damals fing ich auch an, alles was ich las, entstellt zu lesen. Wenn irgendwo stand >Sommermoden<, habe ich gelesen >Sommermorde<. [...] Die neuen Wintermorde sind angekommen, sie werden schon in den wichtigsten Mordhäusern vorgeführt.

When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a religious rite, to make the child hate this world and long for the next. We're a strange vicious people.

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.