Quotes about Misunderstanding
He's basically a good man. But he doesn't know me. Any more than he knew that girl that looked after your mother. He can't know me, not the way I know him. Maybe some of these Hawaiians can, or the Indians on the reservation. They've seen their fathers humiliated. Their mothers desecrated. But your grandfather will never know what that feels like.
- Barack Obama
I was talking to my lawyer and he was saying we have to meet with somebody right away because they really want to get something done. I said, okay, how about tomorrow? He said, 'Well no, it's going to take at least two weeks.' And I had to explain, 'Where I'm from, right away means if we don't do something in half an hour somebody dies.
- Barack Obama
People think it's all a game," she said. "They don't care that there are thousands of men with guns out there who believe every word that's being said.
- Barack Obama
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
- Barbara Kingsolver
When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.
- Barbara Kingsolver
It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.
- Bill Johnson
Were all the vexations of life put together, we should find that a great part of them proceed from those calumnies and reproaches we spread abroad concerning one another.
- Joseph Addison
Even though innocent, anything I say incriminates me; blameless as I am, my defense just makes me sound worse.
- Eugene Peterson
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
- Mark Twain