Quotes About Misconstrue

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

People can misconstrue closeness for love.

Politicians take something out of context to create problems.

We want to reorganise the world, and that makes our brains jump the gun –sometimes. You look at a newspaper headline, take in one word, and before you know it your brain says: yes, that's what it says. But it may not.

Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.

human beings commonly imagine patterns (whether good or bad) where really there are none.

I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere in between the two. Although I'm outgoing, I'm also very private.

People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

We look no deeper into things because we do not desire this; neither are we meant to. That is the design of the world, to trick us into believing it is one thing, when it's entirely another.

Reader, if you wrest my words beyond their fair construction, it is you, and not I, that are the April Fool.

How frustrating would it be if you're the president of the United States, and every single time you turn on the TV on most of the channels, they're misconstruing what you say?

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.

Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.

He must have made that before he died.

Things don't always look as they seem.

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