failure to understand Quotes

I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.