Quotes About Being Misconstrued

#1. I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

Rachel Hunter

#2. It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.

Hillary Clinton

#3. It is important to be nice. But sometimes niceness can be misconstrued as weak. Should we be nice to everybody? Should we be nice only when others are nice to us? Here are some interesting views about being nice. Read these nice quotes and turn on your niceness.

Dave Barry

#4. Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

Boris Kodjoe

#5. I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#6. At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

Dave Reichert

#7. You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

Anatoly Chubais

#8. I hate flowers. They're all 'Look at me - I make food out of sunshine.' It's such bullshit.

Kimberly Russell

#9. I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

Kumail Nanjiani

#10. It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#11. Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole.
[Blog post of July 26, 2011]

Jim C. Hines

#12. Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

Kelis

#13. You're like this ... this goddess pretending to be human ... And I don't know which one I love.

Thomm Quackenbush