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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.
I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.
I think there's a misunderstanding that feminism is about bringing men down to bring women up and it's certainly not that. — © Desi Lydic
I think there's a misunderstanding that feminism is about bringing men down to bring women up and it's certainly not that.
Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.
There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of misunderstanding.
when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
My biggest concern is the abundance of public doubt and misunderstanding when it comes to Twitter's vision and the near future for the service.
Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
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
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?
Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me.
Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
The notion that the U.S. can impose its will unilaterally on the World Bank reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about how multilateral organizations should work.
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.
There's an ocean of misunderstanding. It's called the civilian-military divide. I had a lot to learn about our military - who they are, what burdens they carry.
Americans tend not to distinguish between political rhetoric and real intentions, which can lead to great misunderstanding.
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.
There is far more misunderstanding of Islam than there is, I think, of the other religions of the world. So many things are said of it by those who do not belong to that faith.
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were. — © Anna Quindlen
And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.
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.
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.
As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.
In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding
I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? — © Philip Roth
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Without good communication, a relationship is merely a hollow vessel carrying you along on a frustrating journey fraught with the perils of confusion, projection, and misunderstanding.
Religion is very important to me. One of my aims is to try to show that you can have faith and play cricket. There can be a lot of negativity and misunderstanding of Islam.
I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth
Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.
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