Misunderstood Quotes - Page 9

You cannot explain to someone who comes with no idea of what you are talking about without being misunderstood.

The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

I was sitting cross-legged in bed, trying without success to pretend I'd misunderstood the image I'd glimpsed. Yeah, right. Because Vlad had been between my legs looking for a set of keys he'd lost.

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.

The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions.

I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.

Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

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.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

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

Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.

While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.

I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

I'm a misunderstood genius.

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.