Quotes About Misinterpretation

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.

Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.

I never know when chat-up lines are happening! I don't hear them enough. I don't get hit on enough.

People take songs so literally.

When you're quiet, others can form opinions that are way off the mark.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure.

A sports announcer said: 'They're not booing - they're saying, Bruce, Bruce.

The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

That's probably because they said a lot of other things, as well.

Brunetti had once come across the term 'compassion fatigue', but thought that the oh-so-clever press had got it wrong, and the term should really be, 'horror fatigue'.

Let us never forget that truth, distorted and exaggerated, can become the mother of the most dangerous heresies.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Kyle agreed. "It would be too weird to see you in makeup and heels and all that hot stuff." "But you just said guys like that," Hannah said. "Right," Paul agreed. He stuck his fork back up his nose and added, "But guys are idiots.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.

It is the lowered head that makes her seem less noble than, say, a horse, or a deer surprised in the woods. More exactly, it is her lowered head and neck. As she stands still, the top of her head is level with her back, or even a little lower, and so she seems to be hanging her head in discouragement, embarrassment, or shame. There is at least a suggestion of humility and dullness about her. But all these suggestions are false.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.

Yours is... il sent comme lavande." Is that French for 'You stink'?" It means 'lavender'." Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.

I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying "Giant Kid's Playground", and then wonder why everyone stays away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid.)

Lucern felt himself "She called my erections wonderful?" Entienne just gaped, then raised a fist to knock on his brother's forehead as if it were a door "Hello! Earth calling Luc! She thinks it's rigor mortis.