Misunderstand Quotes

You who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up someday; you who are keeping wretched quarrels alive because you cannot quite make up your mind that now is the day to sacrifice your pride and kill them. - Phillips Brooks

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. - Adrian Cronauer

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

When you get downtown, it's almost like Katrina didn't touch it. There's still a lot of misunderstanding, and (Mardi Gras) is a chance to really let people know that we're open. - Mark Sanders

When there's a misunderstanding, one must make a compromise. This word is not a bad word. - Nicolas Sarkozy

When he's mad, he will bust somebody up. Don't misunderstand Jeff. When he hits, he hits to bash somebody's brains out. We gave him training lessons that he's not supposed to stand over his opponent and cheer when he knocks them out. When their eyes roll back and their body twitches, you're not supposed to pound your chest. - Jim Wilkes

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. - Jean Rostand

Whatever she is trying to say there, she didn't say it well... is worrisome because it might be a basic misunderstanding about the Voting Rights Act. - Mary Cheh