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misunderstood sometimes wrong-time
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. Willem Dafoe
misunderstood way logical
Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once totally logical and perfectly irrational? W. D. Richter
misunderstood politics action
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. Ronald Reagan
misunderstood sometimes being-misunderstood
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood. Terry Gross
misunderstood second-best conversation
The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange. Joseph Campbell
misunderstood second-best thirds
The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.
misunderstood use literature
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
misunderstood wealth rich
If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. Katharine Graham
misunderstood television american-indian
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all. John F. Kennedy
politics motto gridlock
Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.' William Safire
politics down-and come-up
The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up. Richard M. Nixon
politics persuasion heavy
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents. Walter Cronkite
politics persuasion halfway
Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion. Van Morrison
politics might majority
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. Sandra Day O'Connor
politics matter congress
We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces? Will Rogers
politics vote good-humor
And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
politics trouble stamps
Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
politics liquor
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got. Zora Neale Hurston
action benefit debate democracy democratic essence experience free government hundred kenya modern press raid speech standard subject wisdom
Kenya is a multi-party democracy and a modern world which has a benefit of hundred years of experience and debate from around the world on the subject of free speech and the accumulated wisdom that a free press is the essence of democratic governance, which makes government action during the standard raid so mystifying.
actions biology crime isolated pressure relatively suspect tremendous wave
I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.
actions address again analysis fixed problem recent reminder result taken work
It again demonstrates why we have to address the infrastructure of our intelligence-gathering analysis and the actions that are taken as a result of that analysis, ... We've got a lot of work to do, and this is just the most recent reminder that we've got a problem here and it's got to be fixed and it's got to be done this year. Tom Daschle
action ambassador majority others remember vast
I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced, or a vast majority of them, for action to take place, Kofi Annan
action council essential hope iran needs option security
I think Iran needs to know that that option is there, and then we can hope that, you know, Security Council action or negotiations of some kind will work. So yeah, I think it?s essential that it be an option. Jim Talent
action becomes difficult japanese people prudence reconcile
It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are? Winston Churchill
action appears giving highly survey weight words
It appears to be highly subjective. This survey is giving more weight to words over action.
actions again became communist creation criminal daylight deaths four gangs led
He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone. Richard Holbrooke
action cover ground man
He wanted to cover more ground and make more cases. He was a man of action.