Quotes about Misunderstanding

If there is such a thing as platonic love between a man and a woman it is the result of a profound misunderstanding, a stifling of their true and authentic impulses.

My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.

she was the dumbest bitch on the planet.

Once they knew she had been working for a doctor, the eye rolling and tooth sucking was enough to make clear their scorn. And nothing Cee remembered—how pleasant she felt upon awakening after Dr. Beau had stuck her with a needle to put her to sleep; how passionate he was about the value of the examinations; how she believed the blood and pain that followed was a menstrual problem—nothing made them change their minds about the medical industry.

What are you? Some kinda mermaid?" one man had shouted, and reached hurriedly for his socks.

By misunderstanding the nature and purpose of God's kingdom, we have marginalized the church's authority and influence both within its walls and outside them.

North Americans think they know how to speak Christian, but what they say is actually a gross distortion. Either people do not know Christian words at all, or they have heard them but do not know what they mean, or they think they know what they mean when in fact they mean something completely different.

To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.