Misunderstood Quotes - Page 10

• I'm so used to being misunderstood.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Used, Being Misunderstood

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• Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

  Ronald Reagan

  Politics, Action, Conflict

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• To set us on a clear path, it is important to communicate well, at least with ourselves. To know what we want, to know what we mean, and to learn to express ourselves clearly, with as little confusion as possible. If you are confused about yourself, you can expect to be misunderstood by those around you. You have to set your mind straight, and that is a task that no one else can undertake for you.

  Rosemary Altea

  Confused, Mean, Self

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• And so, at least symbolically, the blood of Eve courses through each one of her daughters' veins. We are each associated with life; each subject to the impossible expectations and cruel projections of men; each fallen, blamed, and misunderstood; and each stubbornly vital to the process of bringing something new--perhaps something better--into this world...We are each an Eve.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Daughter, Men, Blood

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Age, Complaining, Lows

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• The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

  William Saroyan

  Understanding, Said, Understanding Others

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• Natural Born Killers is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

  Woody Harrelson

  Killers, Comedy, Natural

  "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.

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• If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Ideas, Worry

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• It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

  Anton du Beke

  Years, Dancing, Dancer

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• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  Ed Belfour

  Sometimes, I Can

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• Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

  Kid Cudi

  People, Trying, Different

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• Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.

  Stanley Clarke

  Scientology

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• Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

  Terry Gross

  Asking, Lines, Sometimes

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• If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.

  Louie Gohmert

  Your Side, Support, Sides

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• When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Knowing, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.39, Criss Jami

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• When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

  Philip Yancey

  Spiritual, Jesus, Exercise

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• Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

  Paul Lockhart

  Art, Mathematics, Wells

  "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

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• Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.

  Shirin Neshat

  Communication, Artist, Magic Realism

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• Now, who can call 'Good Friday' good? - A term too oft misunderstood - You, who were bought by the blood of His cross, You can call 'Good Friday' good.

  Johnny Hart

  Friday, Blood, Crosses

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• I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Misunderstood

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• We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.

  Sidney Jourard

  Lonely, Real, Self

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• Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

  Walter Sickert

  Passion, Thinking, Cezanne

  Walter Sickert, Anna Gruetzner Robins (2003). “Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art”, p.276, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Teacher, Opposites

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.47, Criss Jami

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• Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.

  Criss Jami

  Genius, Fool, Excuse

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.74, Criss Jami

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• Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Dream, Father

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.65, Bantam

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