Misplaced Quotes
92 quotes by 87 authors
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By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.
— Dan Lipinski
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I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.
— Colin Farrell
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I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.
— Terry Goodkind
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Beware of your dreams. They can become misplaced lovers. They can become idols.
— Phil Vischer
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Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never…
— E. M. Delafield
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What's the point of a spark of light if it stands alone? The key is, and will always be, synergy. Without it, each and every…
— Suzy Kassem
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We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision…
— Kenny Smith
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It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis…
— Calvin Seerveld
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You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and…
— Harrison Ford
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I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.
— Dave Eggers
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A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.
— Rodney Crowell
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You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even…
— Jay McInerney
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If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.
— Denis Diderot
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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
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In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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