Misunderstanding 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 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

What we have called for is tolerance and understanding, not incitement to violence. And we call upon all governments to lower the temperature, to urge calm, and to urge dialogue and not misunderstanding. Sadly, we have not seen that from the Iranian government, or the Syrian government. - Sean McCormack