Quotes about Misunderstanding

But people do. They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.

It was not her fault that when he went to her he was already over. How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said: that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!

She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!

So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?' Alice made a short calculation, and said 'Seven years and six months.' 'Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. 'You never said a word like it!' 'I though you meant How old ARE you?' Alice explained. 'If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn't want

Why couldn't you have told me so Three quarters of an hour ago, You prince of all the asses?

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems.

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

Whatever one says on the air is bound to be misunderstood; for people take from the heard or printed discourse that which they are predisposed to hear or read, not what is there- all that TV can do is to increase the number of misunderstanders by many thousandfold — and at the same time to increase the range of misunderstanding by providing no objective text to which the voluntarily ignorant can be made to refer.

Don't call us saints, we don't want to be dismissed that easily.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.