Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.
They ended as all great passions do end - by a misunderstanding.
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.
I think my reputation will look after itself," Holmes said. "If they hang me, Watson, I shall leave it to you to persuade your readers that the whole thing was a misunderstanding.
I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and "Hispanically".
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'.
There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.
Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.
We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
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 was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may have been Camus's attitude, but it was certainly not that of Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, each of whom tried to show that we can only experience the world in relation to our own projects and purposes. The world is initially one of 'equipment', said Heidegger: it is a world of 'tasks', said Sartre.
A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
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.
