Misleading Quotes · Page 2

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

— David Attenborough

“Yes,' she said, her nod and smile so American and so misleading. 'You are not supposed to be here—you're supposed to be…

— Olivia Sudjic

“Florida misleading the world in 2022 was the second time I had witnessed them engage in this undesirable behavior.”

— Steven Magee

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.

— Marcia Clark

So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading,

— Edward Snowden

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

— Alfred Marshall

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

— Nancy Pelosi

Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what's written about China is misleading,…

— Anchee Min

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is…

— Frank Church

If you destroy the credibility of those people or institutions that could undermine your own, you create an opportunity for your voice,…

— John Yarmuth

I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform…

— John Holdren

Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica…

— Jonathan Turley

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue. Yet emotions are also our…

— Francis Spufford

In Israel, I think I have the image of an 'Ashkenazi woman' as a stereotype. Someone once told me that I look…

— Mili Avital

I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that…

— Steve Albini

If you didn't know what you where doing ! then why did you play with my heart like it was a toy…

— Mia Lugo

It's really hard to talk about writing, and I'm usually conscious if I'm misleading people or misleading the questioner, because the problem…

— Tom Stoppard

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

— Brian Eno

“Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.”

— Anthony Liccione

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no…

— Grace Napolitano

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading…

— Antony Beevor

“If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I became wary of medical blood and urine tests and came to regard them as very misleading.”

— Steven Magee

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

— Robert Greene

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

— Michael Mandelbaum

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

— Francis Spufford

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking…

— Marshall McLuhan

There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

— Edward Sapir

To diagnose and treat a brain disorder accurately, it would be necessary to look at the brain directly. Looking at behavior alone…

— Aditi Shankardass

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits…

— Thomas R. Insel

The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too,…

— Chris Hadfield

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to…

— Nick Turse

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

— John Maynard Keynes

I have never intentionally provided false and misleading information to the NCAA.

— Kelvin Sampson

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

— Anita Brookner

I have stopped looking at roles as lead or parallel lead. Also, I feel these are very misleading terms.

— Nikita Dutta

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

— Davy Jones

“To take a specific example, a researcher in the Journal of Traumatic Stress interviewed 129 women with documented histories of child sexual…

— Janet Walker