Misplaced Quotes

92 quotes by 87 authors

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then… — Julia Margaret Cameron
Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races. — Tupac Shakur
In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance… — Ernest Starling
Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do… — William Shakespeare
Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what… — James Levine
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced — Ruby Wax
While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I… — Hal Porter
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in… — Damian Lewis
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air,… — Paul Hawken
Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy. — Zadie Smith
I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late… — Reed Hastings
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world… — Jane Goodall
Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way. — John Otway
I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced. — Winfield Scott
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be… — Albert Hadley
Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and… — Francis Atterbury
Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose… — Judith Guest
Evil is, good or truth misplaced. — Mahatma Gandhi
... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with… — Francis Maitland Balfour

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