#understandings

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

I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#certain #coach #conflicts #could #happen

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

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#hearts #led #much #oftener #than

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#avoid #declare #even #heartily #i

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

— Toni Morrison

#insanity #misunderstandings #sisters #crazy

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

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