Misplaced Quotes

• Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

  John Otway

  Long, Enthusiasm, Way

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• When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Creativity, Power, Determine

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Responsibility

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

  Theodor Adorno

  Successful, People, Done

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• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Liberty, Weight, Process

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

  Terry Goodkind

  Cosmos, Maine, Felt

  "Moving to Maine: The Essential Guide to Get You There and What You Need to Know to Stay". Book by Vicki Doudera, 2000.

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• By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

  Dan Lipinski

  Cutting, Priorities, Environmental

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• I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced

  Ruby Wax

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  War, Bihar, Cold

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.

  S.J. Watson

  Trust Me, Admission

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• Bill is about moving forward on a long overdue provision to protect vulnerable paid farm workers in Alberta to the same degree that they are protected in every other province in the country, and we feel confident that once people see how the bill actually applies to the regular family farm, they will see that a lot of the concerns were perhaps misplaced. And it's unfortunate that we created a situation that made people worry; that was not ever our intention.

  Rachel Notley

  Country, Moving, Worry

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

  James MacDonald

  Determine

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• What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do, we make a lot of errors, you know, you can't help it. Mistakes all over the place, but out of naïveté or, you know, misplaced kindness or something like that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kindness, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

  Keshia Chante

  Loyalty, Destiny, Ruins

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• Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Animal, Effort

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman, 2000.

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• Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

  James Grant

  Recessions

  "Whistling Past the Economic Graveyard: The Audacity of Misplaced Hope" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2009.

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• So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Growing, Horns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.376, University of Missouri Press

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• Get your hand off me,” I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. “I’m a professional, not some distraught girlfriend.” Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene.

  Kim Harrison

  Girlfriend, Hands, Voice

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• Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

  James Levine

  Cutting, Fate, Reality

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• It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  Damian Lewis

  Running, Men, Views

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• Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

  James A. Baldwin

  Home, Mean, Thinking

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• There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Travel, Lost Ones, World

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made truth of what appeared to be. The days that passed, in becoming weeks, still did not disturb the surface an assumption had created. The weather of a beautiful summer continued with neither sign nor hint that credence had been misplaced. The single sandal found among the rocks became a sodden image of death; and as the keening on the pier at Kilauran traditionally marked distres brought by the sea, so did silence at Lahardane.

  William Trevor

  Beautiful, Summer, Rocks

  William Trevor (2011). “The Story of Lucy Gault”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from... to darkness. We've got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Children, Heart, Two

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• Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced... because these things are unreliable and fleeting.

  Charles Stanley

  Philosophy, Men, Fleeting

  Charles F. Stanley (2012). “Turning the Tide: Real Hope, Real Change”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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