“Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag’s fundamental nature.”
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
“To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.”
“Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.”
“The misunderstanding out there is that we are a ‘hard rock’ band or a ‘heavy metal’ band. We’ve only ever been a rock n’ roll band.”
“I think there’s a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.”
“I think there’s a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.”
“Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.”
“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.”
“Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.”
“The world only goes round by misunderstanding.”
“We can’t disrespect, by way discounting or misunderstanding our different sticking points, the beliefs of the various groups comprising the tea party movement, but we all have more in common with each other than we do with factions on the Left: the communists, the socialists, the say-they’re-anarchists-but-are-actually-socialists.”
“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.”
“To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.”
“I’m so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we’re about.”
“The Gospel of Judas really has been a surprise in many ways. For one thing, there’s no other text that suggests that Judas Iscariot was an intimate, trusted disciple, one to whom Jesus revealed the secrets of the kingdom, and that conversely, the other disciples were misunderstanding what he meant by the gospel.”
“The prison industrial complex is perhaps, at least domestically, the most striking example of us putting profit before people. It all stems from one basic misunderstanding: that the public good can be shepherded by private interests.”
“The word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.”
“The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.”
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”
“Not only the entire ability to think rests on language… but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.”
“In minority communities there’s a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There’s a misunderstanding of what an artist does.”
“My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.”
“We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.”
“In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn’t be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.”
“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”
“There’s a misunderstanding that I’ve always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a ‘Half-Life’ story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can’t. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.”
“In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.”
“There’s an ocean of misunderstanding. It’s called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military – who they are, what burdens they carry.”
“There’s a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One hears things like, ‘I don’t want to be turned into a data entry clerk, and I don’t want some machine between me and my patients.’”
“As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged – indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe’s long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.”
“Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.”
“There’s never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I’m a little whacked.”
“Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.”
“You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.”
“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”
“My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.”
“I think there’s always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn’t.”
“It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.”
“’Basic Black with Pearls’, upon its publication in 1980, was greeted with a mix of praise and misunderstanding. Critics sensed its daring and applauded its formal inventiveness, but those qualities also kept people at bay.”
“The notion that the U.S. can impose its will unilaterally on the World Bank reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about how multilateral organizations should work.”
“There’s probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.”
“People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that’s a misunderstanding. It’s about showing what invisibility looks like.”
“I think there’s a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.”
“What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.”
“The biggest misunderstanding about me is that I’m just a bratty, gobby idiot.”
“If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.”
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