Mistaken Quotes - Page 24

• Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Three, Agents, Trouble

  Dashiell Hammett (2009). “Detective Stories”, p.11, Coyote Canyon Press

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• I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

  Rita Ora

  Latin, Descent

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• If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Believe, Book

  John Hammond Taylor, Saint Augustine (1983). “Genesi Ad Litteram”, p.43, Paulist Press

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• I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.

  Bruno Heller

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

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• History affords us many instances of the ruin of states,
  by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and
  genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one
  part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, People, Political

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• From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

  Manny Farber

  Sweet, Golf, Men

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• Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Illumination, Atheism, Fagots

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42

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• Habit: Often mistaken for love.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Habit

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Errors, Soul, Needs

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• how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.

  Carolyn Wells

  Successful, Advice, Credit

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Fall, Reading, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.

  Hilton Als

  Beautiful, Country, Song

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• The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

  Dannie Abse

  Drama, Identity, Theme

  1984 Journa lentry,Feb,collected in Journals from the Ant-Heap (1986).

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• he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Selfish, Mean, Reality

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• While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of altruism and human compassion it cannot be denied that such a culture of death, taken as a whole, betrays a completely individualistic concept of freedom, which ends up by becoming the freedom of "the strong" against the weak who have no choice but to submit.

  Pope John Paul II

  Strong, Taken, Compassion

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• Oh, my dear! I’m afraid you’ve mistaken me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you’re so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Thinking, Years

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• On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to heaven?

  John Vianney

  Children, Heaven, Suffering

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• The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
  Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
  Let others say his heart is big,
  I think it stupid of the Pig.

  Ogden Nash

  Fun, Stupid, Heart

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.

  Watchman Nee

  May, Affection

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• Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

  Neil Gaiman

  Baby, Pain, Sleep

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