Misplaced Quotes

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

— Ruby Wax

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.

— Rodney Crowell

“There's nothing worse than misplaced optimism.”

— Charlie Cole

“Mistakes means misplaced priorities.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.

— Tupac Shakur

I feel slightly misplaced in a world of

— Tom

“You can do everything right and still feel out of place.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“I seem to have misplaced a good excuse for why I haven't given God the time of day.”

— Tina Radcliffe

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

— S.J. Watson

“Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it.”

— Patricia Ryan Madson

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

— Kay Ryan

“I seem to have misplaced my heart so long ago and I don’t know where to even begin looking for it.”

— Claire Contreras

“If she were neater, she might not have to resort to panic searches when she misplaced important things.”

— Mary Campisi

Beware of your dreams. They can become misplaced lovers. They can become idols.

— Phil Vischer

“It seemed harmless enough until she misplaced her "Dildo" and started calling the neighbors to ask if she could borrow one of…

— Mollie Gross

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that…

— Tad Williams

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

— Denis Diderot

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

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more…

— David Harsanyi

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

— Dan Lipinski

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

— Keshia Chante

“I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift--to have his love at a time…

— Emm Cole

On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked…

— Haruki Murakami

You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in…

— Jay McInerney

Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he…

— Jo Walton

Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would…

— William Shakespeare

“For days I kept imagining the fate of the world's misplaced letters. I started noticing them everywhere. All the right letters sitting…

— Avi Steinberg

He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of…

— John Derbyshire

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it…

— Anne Bronte

Let's start with some of the reasons that the press holds its tongue and some of the things that you don't know…

— Geneva Overholser

You're wrong," I told her. "I lost that faith a long time ago." She looked at me as I said this, an…

— Sarah Dessen

As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath,…

— William Trevor

“But he wasn’t ugly, just misplaced and marked by loneliness.”

— Sherman Alexie

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

— John Otway

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.

— Margaret Mazzantini

It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.

— Christoph Waltz

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

— Winfield Scott

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

— Joanna Lumley