#understandings

The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#love-story #misunderstandings #sad-love #tragic #love

I wanted to wash away our past misgivings in those tears that would run from our eyes and weave a new start by folding her in my arms. I wanted to, but I did not! ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#mistakes #misunderstandings #sad #love

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. ↗

— John Woolman

#case #cast #civil #civil society #disorder

Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#based #because #his #hitchcock #life

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#hearts #led #much #oftener #than

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#insanity #misunderstandings #sisters #crazy

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#grammar #humor #misunderstandings #problems #troubles

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. ↗

— Renata Adler

#brings #fosters #heat #litigation #misunderstandings

There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#been #close #close friends #difficult #dissolved

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding." ↗

— John Searle

#block #common #discussions #fancy #finds