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

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized.

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

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Jesus Christ can afford to be misunderstood; we cannot. Our weakness lies in always wanting to vindicate ourselves.

Today, I attended a friend's birthday party dressed as a ninja. I soon discovered that ninjas are very misunderstood.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.

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

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?

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

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

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

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.

Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.

I would love to be friends with Kanye West, because I know he is not a dreadful person, he is a lovely person and I think he is misunderstood.

I've always had a lot of energy and had a lot of opinions all my life - people misunderstood that about me being naughty, gobby, or different.

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.

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they're misunderstood. I don't think people realize how kind New York people are.

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

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

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

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

All my films have found distribution and prestige in the Japanese market, so I actually feel my films are very well received and seldom misunderstood.

Now, who can call 'Good Friday' good? - A term too oft misunderstood - You, who were bought by the blood of His cross, You can call 'Good Friday' good.

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.

There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.

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.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

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