Misuse Quotes - Page 3

• This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Trials, Forget

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Wise, Book, Hands

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• Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

  Charles Dickens

  Effort, Cost, Littles

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.307, GENERAL PRESS

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• but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Immune, Nations

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Smart, Mean

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Ideas, Mind

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We can tell much by what we have already willing discarded along the pathway of discipleship. It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged. In the early stages, the debris left behind includes the grosser sins of commission. Later debris differs; things begin to be discarded which have caused the misuse or underuse of our time and talent.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Pathways, Littering, Talent

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• I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

  Robert Bolt

  Men, Names, Used

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.97, A&C Black

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• Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.

  Quentin Crisp

  Confused, Thinking, Mind

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• Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religious, Technology, Night

  A.C. Grayling (2010). “The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• The power of procreation is spiritually significant. Misuse of this power subverts the purposes of the Father's plan and of our mortal existence. Our Heavenly Father and His Beloved Son are creators and have entrusted each of us with a portion of Their creative power.

  David A. Bednar

  Father, Son, Creative

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• You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

  John Green

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.86, Penguin

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• Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, President, Executive Power

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• If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Reserves, Ifs

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.

  Frederick Soddy

  Military, Science, Men

  "In Commemoration of Professor Frederick Soddy" by New Europe Group, 6-7, 1956.

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• I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

  Marilyn Manson

  Religious

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• We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Exercise, Self, Realizing

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.385, NYU Press

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• I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Desire

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.52, Knickerbocker Classics

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• Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Teacher, Science

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• ... the scientist would maintain that knowledge in of itself is wholly good, and that there should be and are methods of dealing with misuses of knowledge by the ruffian or the bully other than by suppressing the knowledge.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Science, Bully, Ruffian

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• Men deal with life as children with their play,
  Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

  William Cowper

  Life, Children, Men

  'Hope' (1782) l. 127

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• The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

  Orson Scott Card

  Teacher, Mistake, Believe

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.79, Macmillan

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• The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have never glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it with great conviction, as if they knew what they are talking about. Or they argue against it, as if they knew what it is they are denying. This misuse gives rise to absurd beliefs, assertions, and egoic delusions, such as "My or our God is the only true God, and your God is false," or Nietzsche's famous statmeent "God is dead.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Talking, Years

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• Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Oil, Lazy, Cost

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• The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Anxiety, Use, Way

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.122, SCM Press

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