#misunderstanding

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#label #me #misunderstanding

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#mistake #misunderstanding

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

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

— Francois Truffaut

#based #because #his #hitchcock #life

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. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#avant-garde #because #bit #i #i think

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda. ↗

— John Yoo

#abu #against #al #apply #between

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. ↗

— Andre Gide

#misunderstanding #most #quarrels

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

#also #crux #entire #itself #language

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

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. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#comes #doing #feeling #folks #good