Mislead Quotes - Page 9

• Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

  Christoph Waltz

  Truth, Reality, Rumor

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• I have fun with it and I am honest and open about the way I lead my life and don't mislead anyone. I've had the time of my life and thank God for that, it would be such a waste otherwise.

  James Blunt

  Fun, Thank God, Would Be

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• Oh, great reviews are the worst. They mislead you more than the bad ones, because they only fuel your ego. Then you only want another one, like potato chips or something, and the best thing you get is fat and bloated. I'd rather just refuse, thanks.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Rejection, Ego, Fuel

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• The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets paved, I want all of you to march down Broadway and occupy The Oregonian!

  Steve Novick

  Running, People, Broadway

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• I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.

  Khoi Vinh

  Thinking, Internet, Characteristics

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.

  Emily Giffin

  Love, Thinking, Wind

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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• This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Death, Running, Ocean

  1923 A Tract on Monetary Reform.

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• It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation... The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or intent of the framers.

  William Rehnquist

  Wall, Years, Decision

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• Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Progressive Taxation, Names

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• The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

  J. I. Packer

  Firsts, Doe, Peace With God

  "Knowing God". Book by J. I. Packer, 1973.

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• Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

  Isaac Asimov

  Art, Data, Work Out

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• Books can be misleading...

  J. K. Rowling

  Book

  "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Real, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.317

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• Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists hurts themselves as much, if not more, than they benefit from the attention they derive from their actions. Con artists usually benefit from misleading others without sacrificing anything themselves. All my girls have sacrificed plenty.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Girl, Hurt, Sacrifice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.

  Ian Svenonius

  Real, Ideas, Creating

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• The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Leadership

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.

  John Wanamaker

  Business, Ideas, Succeed

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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• I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think about it. The minute we start, we will end up getting many more people killed unnecessarily. Now, I'm ready to die myself. Many other committed people are ready to die. If you believe in something firmly, if you believe in it truly, if you believe it in your heart, you are willing to die for it, but I'm not going to advocate a method that brings about unnecessary death.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Believe, Pride

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.

  Peter Mandelson

  Lying, People, Knows

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• I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead

  Norman Tebbit

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Approval Rating, Years

  "More About the 9/11 Anniversary". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Whatever Scotland was, it was not a matriarchy; whereas the United States was a profoundly matriarchal society - and much more feminine than would be suggested by all that male bravado. That was a front, and a misleading one at that; underneath the male swagger lay a passive acceptance of female dominance - a fact not always appreciated by outsiders.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Acceptance, Scotland, Dominance

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.31, Anchor

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• Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

  Nancy Pelosi

  United States, Accusing, Congress

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• All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.

  John Locke

  War, Mean, Fighting

  John Locke (1752). “Some Thoughts concerning Education ... The eleventh edition”, p.174

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