#misunderstand

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#great #i #i think #little #me

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#misunderstanding #life

Misunderstanding kills the person who claimed it & scratches the mirror of his life & leaves specks on his soul. ↗

— Behnam Rajabpoor

#life

We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#kindness #misunderstanding #desire

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#mistake #misunderstanding

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. ↗

— John Yoo

#abu #against #al #apply #between

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#also #crux #entire #itself #language

I'm a lion in a strange land. ↗

— Criss Jami

#awkwardness #beast #courage #different #earth

...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the limitations of our own vision and of our own capacity for misunderstanding and self-deception. ↗

— Krista Tippett

#liberalism #misunderstanding #niebuhr #self-deception #terrorism

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#illusion #life #misunderstanding #personality #life