Misplaced Quotes
92 quotes by 87 authors
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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
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Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.
— Tupac Shakur
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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
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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
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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
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I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced
— Ruby Wax
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.
— Zadie Smith
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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
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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
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Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.
— John Otway
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I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.
— Winfield Scott
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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
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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
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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
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Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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... 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
Who Wrote These Misplaced Quotes
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