Misconstrue Quotes

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or process, or whatever is "the issue." It induces confusion in the sense that there is failure to see what is "really" being experienced, or being done, or going on, and failure to distinguish or discriminate the actual issues. This entails the substitution of false for true constructions of what is being experienced, being done (praxis), or going on (process), and the substitution of false issues for the actual issues.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

People can misconstrue closeness for love.