They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.
I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane. . . I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election. '. . . A misunderstanding.
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes. ’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.
It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'.
The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation.
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.
I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and "Hispanically".
It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful. . .
Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.
Despite everything - despite all this hatred, despite all this misunderstanding between nations and civilizations - I think love is the end. Love is the end.
Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.
The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.
Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.