#misunderstanding

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. ↗

— Peter Welch

#already #ask #authorize #authorizing #bills

Audiences know exactly what's coming and they know from the beginning of the movie that everything's going to be OK and there will be high jinks that will get you from the beginning to the end, and eventually all the misunderstandings will be worked out and everyone will be in love. ↗

— Dana Fox

#beginning #coming #end #eventually #everyone

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#avoid #declare #even #heartily #i

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#intensity #misunderstanding #river #ruination #water

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#infected #minds #misunderstanding #our #own

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#behave #believe #cease #effect #great

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#helpless #make #misunderstanding #oneself #others

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#chaos #gossip #misunderstanding #gossip

It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#misunderstanding #puzzles #quarrel #relationship #love

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#conflict #evolution #inspirational-quotes #language #mankind