In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

We can pursue peaceful diplomacy with the Iranian regime while also continuing our maximum economic pressure campaign, while also defending ourselves... To say that it's a war with Iran or nothing is just a fundamental misunderstanding of how foreign policy actually works.

There was a misunderstanding with Barca. Something happened that I didn't like, but I prefer to keep it for myself.

When you look at the goals he has been criticised for, at some point they could have been prevented by a defender, or it was a misunderstanding. It is not down to Joe Hart on his own.

You always risk people misunderstanding you when you say anything.

There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of misunderstanding.

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

I think there's a misunderstanding that feminism is about bringing men down to bring women up and it's certainly not that.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

'Basic Black with Pearls', upon its publication in 1980, was greeted with a mix of praise and misunderstanding. Critics sensed its daring and applauded its formal inventiveness, but those qualities also kept people at bay.

I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.