So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it.… — Tom Sizemore Copy Share Image
A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
But there are times when thinking is misplaced, like when taking photographs. You cannot think your way to making photographs; you can… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these… — James Inhofe Copy Share Image
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath,… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities. — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill) — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Beware of your dreams. They can become misplaced lovers. They can become idols. — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
This enthusiasm [for empathy] may be misplaced. Empathy has some unfortunate features – it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. We’re often at… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
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