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Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies. — Joanne Harris

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion. — Linda Blair

Grief, she thought. It's a strange and a misunderstood emotion. — Anne Rice

Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated. — David Deida

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood. — Matthew Collings

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

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. — Jeff Bezos

The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies. — Criss Jami

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

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood. — Soren Kierkegaard

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn't understand anything and was a pain to have around. — Embee

I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius. — Bill Watterson

There's all kinds of ways to be misunderstood, and one of them is via the interview. — Dean Wareham

I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood. — Isaac Parker

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood. — Mae West

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood. — Norman MacCaig

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

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. — David F. D'Alessandro

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly. — Todd English

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful. — Drake

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood. — Kirk Hammett

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. — Edie Sedgwick

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. — Criss Jami

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

Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself. — Brian Herbert

Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning. — Thomas Keating

...misunderstood and forgotten, you have great truths within you if only anyone would bother to look. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Few words have been misunderstood more than "love," perhaps with the exception of "God — Akemi G

I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books — Michael Kroft

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god. — Richard Bach

We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others — Oscar Wilde

Donkeys are the most misunderstood and abused animals around the world. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value. — Joyce Rachelle

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. — Jeff Bezos

If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth. — Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed. — Adam Levin

I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood. — Corey Dillon

Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving. - Michiru/Sailor Neptune — Naoko Takeuchi

I'm a misunderstood genius. — Bill Watterson

She felt lost and misunderstood. She felt like she was drowning. Overwhelmed. Unaccepted. Alone. — Tina J. Richardson

An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I'm afraid to say, has been understood. — Jo Nesbo

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. — Edgar Saltus

I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy. — Zayn Malik

Those without an idea of who you are make you become what they think. — Michael Bassey Johnson

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked that she was, and forgot that the defective can more than the entire. — Thomas Hardy

To be gret is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one. — John Lloyd Young

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood. — Sarah Hall

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

We are the silent, the misunderstood and the maligned. We are Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. — Khalid Muhammad

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot — Macy Gray

Misunderstood twins run away from weddings. Malevolent twins shoot the groom. — Courtney M. Privett

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool. — Shannon L. Alder

He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood. — Davis Bunn

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly. — Dusty Springfield

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them. — Mary Gaitskill

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

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

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

What happens between people is so misunderstood even between the people who are having the sex. — Justin Vernon

Fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people. — Erica Jong

As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I — Umberto Eco

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood — John Mayer

After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else. — Henry Handel Richardson

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. — Criss Jami

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably. — William, Saroyan

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

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes. — Tom Hiddleston

To be great, you must be misunderstood — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would rather be blunt and heard then quiet and misunderstood. — Michael Joshua

Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer. — Eva Sloan

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem. — Bjarne Stroustrup

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned. — John Brown Gordon

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it. — William James

Boredom is peace misunderstood. — Marty Rubin

But I'm starting to think that most villains aren't evil - they are just misunderstood. Or victims of that most manipulative force: love. — Karina Halle

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things. — Chloe Thurlow

I like being misunderstood. — Lil' Wayne

Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend. — Herbert

Live your life with the will, to understand life. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

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

To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast. — Criss Jami

Few governmental institutions are more misunderstood and feared out of ignorance than the Federal Reserve Board. — David Baldacci

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

Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream. — Desiree Akhavan

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Soren Kierkegaard

I've become quite comfortable with being misunderstood. — D.L. Roan

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it. — Emile M. Cioran

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. — Katharine Graham

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood. — Oscar Wilde

It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?) — John Irving

Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with. — Lin Yutang

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act. — James Thurber

I believe hip hop's characteristic beliefs as a whole are misunderstood, underappreciated and highly underestimated. — Carlos Wallace

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin. — P.G. Wodehouse

Misunderstood some say. Perhaps it's the perception that needs examining! — Annette Whitaker-Moss

Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are. — Simone Elkeles

Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind. — Stephen Fry