Being Misunderstood Quotes (page 2)

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• hell
• sufferings
• suffer

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. Clarence Darrow

• love
• life
• misunderstanding

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

• misunderstood
• likes
• liking

I like being misunderstood. Lil Wayne

• writing
• writings
• liked

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood. Norman MacCaig

• accustomed
• explains
• explain

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that. Fan Binbing

• dog
• time
• mercy

He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law;... Jack London

• death
• life
• eating

He must master or be mastered; while to show mecy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed. Jack London

• change
• beauty
• common

Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be "beautiful" to be sexual. That of course is not true at all. The definitions of both "beautiful" and "sexual" constantly change to serve the social order, and the connection between the two is a recent invention. Naomi Wolf

• look
• wellness
• justice

The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is not--Do your duty, but--Do what is not your duty. It is not your duty to go the second mile, to turn the other cheek, but Jesus says if we are His disciples we shall always do these things. There will be no spirit of--"Oh, well, I cannot do any more, I have been so misrepresented and misunderstood". . . Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the... Oswald Chambers

• dead
• evening
• dog

The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters. Elizabeth Gilbert

• thinking
• rule
• doing you

You could be the Mega Mage of wizards. You could rule Minionfire. Do you really think so?' Yeah, but you'd have to make a deal with the wood elves.' I don't like the wood elves.' They're okay. They're misunderstood. Janet Evanovich

• real
• science
• exactly is

Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood. Carl Sagan

• mind
• mindfulness
• malign

Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind. Stephen Fry

• men
• swine
• poets

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. Soren Kierkegaard

• understanding
• students
• hateful

Never try to understand the students. They hate it. They would much rather be tragically misunderstood, wallow in self-pity, stew in their own? J. K. Rowling