Misunderstanding Quotes - Page 12

• It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.

  Frederick Lenz

  Love You, Buddhism, Rama

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• Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Criticism, Littles

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter One (February 17, 1903), 1929.

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• (From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime) He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before. With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain. Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face. Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly.

  Peter Carey

  Hurt, Perfect, Annoyed

  Peter Carey (1994). “Collected stories”

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• A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Hands, Broken, Unity

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• There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Race, Knowing Everything

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• And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Two, Events, Wickedness

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.3, e-artnow

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• BoJack especially is a very dialogue based show. A lot of the comedy comes from conversations, and a lot of story comes from misunderstandings and people trying to connect with each other, and there was a really interesting challenge trying to write a script with no dialogue.

  Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  Writing, People, Interesting

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Heart, People

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• It is clear that Germany needs a foreign policy in which we jointly define European interests. Thus far, we have often defined European values, but we have been much too weak in defining mutual interests. To preempt any possible misunderstandings: We cannot give short shrift to our values of freedom, democracy and human rights.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Giving, Democracy, Human Rights

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• Despite everything - despite all this hatred, despite all this misunderstanding between nations and civilizations - I think love is the end. Love is the end.

  Osama Alomar

  Love Is, Thinking, Hatred

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.

  Carmen Rasmusen

  People, Church, Might

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There are people who assume that Christianity is about the afterlife and that our chief problem in this life is that we are sinners who need to be punished and the point of Jesus life is that he took our punishment so we can go to heaven. I write about the problems we get ourselves into by misunderstanding and limiting the way we think about our faith.

  Marcus Borg

  Jesus, Writing, Thinking

  "Interview with Marcus Borg on his first novel, ‘Putting Away Childish Things’". Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com.

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• It is important to show people ways that we can reclaim Christianity from some of the misunderstandings of our time.

  Marcus Borg

  People, Important, Christianity

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• I do have a side as a citizen, and I've always expressed it, and that's where I've gotten into misunderstandings, because some people see me as a leftist nut or whatever. A conspiracy nut. All that stuff. These are definitions that don't really apply to a dramatist, because a dramatist is working from empathy.

  Oliver Stone

  Nuts, People, Empathy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

  Monica Furlong

  Envy, Would Be, Sin

  Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

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• I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will be pushback, resistance, and misunderstanding. I look at each of these experiences as an opportunity to educate and make the path potentially less daunting for anyone else that follows in my footsteps.

  Joanna Lohman

  Opportunity, Self, Levels

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• I don't want anybody to be under a misunderstanding. Donald Trump never even said the word "assassination." That was the word used by Hillary Clinton in 2008, which CNN is calling a gaffe. (impression) "But Trump meant it! Yeah, Trump, he meant it." With Hillary, "It was a gaffe! We all know Hillary Clinton, and we all know Hillary Clinton didn't really mean what she said." Yeah, right. Double standards.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Cnn, Calling

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.

  Joanna Lohman

  Self, Levels, Resistance

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• Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan, which tends to focus on indirectness, avoidance of conflict and keeping things close to your chest. So that has led to quite a lot of cultural misunderstandings in dealing with this East Asian culture I live in.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Japan, Focus, Asian

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

  Bill Hicks

  Expression, America, United States

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• It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Pain, Character, Past

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.107, Pan Macmillan

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• Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In a world of misunderstanding and stigmas, the young Smoak searches for love and acceptance, and his readers can’t help but find themselves becoming emotionally attached to him. His is an observant and encompassing story, noticing the brilliance of existence that others might take for granted. The sunsets written here are more lovely than in life.

  Jenny Boully

  Sunset, Acceptance, Lovely

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• Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Mistake, Simple, Silence

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• Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wickedness, World, Neglect

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2011). “The Sorrows of Young Werther (少年維特的煩惱)”, p.13, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Eye, Looks, Foxes

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