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Letter "M" » misunderstanding
«We covered 'Hey, Jude.' My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out 'Hey, Jew' to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.»
Author: Ben Stiller
(Actor)
| Keywords:
belting, belts, belt up, covered, holocaust, holocausts, Jew, Jude, lead singer, lyric, lyrics, misunderstanding, panicked, roomful, singer, The holocaust
«To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.»
«The manner in which you ask a question betrays your limits - those answers you will accept, and those you will reject or confuse with misunderstanding»
«Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood»
Author: Lionel Trilling
(Author, Critic, Teacher)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
helpless, misunderstanding, serves
«The world only goes round by misunderstanding.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
misunderstanding, misunderstandings, round, The World is Round
«When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.»
Author: Jean Rostand
(Biologist, Historian)
| Keywords:
gross, his times, misunderstanding, prophetic
«The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Men,
Passion,
Women
| Keywords:
cease, differ, differed, hence, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, misunderstands, nonetheless, passions, tempo
«The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
already, Christian, Christianity, cross, crossing over, Crossing the, cross out, died, has-been, in reality, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, misunderstands, reality, The cross, The Word, word
«The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
basis, marriage, misunderstanding, misunderstandings, misunderstands, mutual, proper
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