Misplaced Quotes

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

  John Otway

  Long, Enthusiasm, Way

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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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You're wrong," I told her. "I lost that faith a long time ago." She looked at me as I said this, an expression of quiet understanding on her face. "Maybe you didn't, though," she said softly. "Lose it, I mean." "Lissa." "No, just hear me out." She looked out at the road for a second, then back at me. "Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Expression, Long

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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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• Shaunee was digging in her purse like she'd misplaced a tube of one of MAC's seasonal lipsticks that you buy and fall in love with AND THEN THEY DISCONTINUE IT BECAUSE THEY REALLY HATE US AND WANT US TO BE CRAZY.

  P. C. Cast

  Falling In Love, Hate, Crazy

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Destined”, p.266, Macmillan

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• Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Forever, Gone

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.219, Penguin

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• Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Wall, Book, Smell

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.45, Granta Books

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• Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

  David Baldacci

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• Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

  Terry Pratchett

  Belief, Opinion, Manners

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.87, Random House

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• After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.

  Anne Fortier

  Suicide, Poison, Afternoon

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  Jane Austen

  Ignorance, Vanity, Knowing

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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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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• Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

  Victor Hugo

  Dirt, Materials, Has Beens

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• Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

  Margot Asquith

  Profound, Laughing, May

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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