Quotes about Misunderstanding

your kiss no longer literature but fine print, a set of instructions.

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

Many of the judgments we make of one another—judgments that cause great pain—are preventable, because they are based on misunderstanding

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

The simple biggest problem in communication is the illusion that has taken place.

Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal gold-fish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass.

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about? And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.