Misuse Quotes

121 quotes by 119 authors

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen… — John Cage
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the… — Chris Chocola
I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. — Woodrow Wilson
I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god. — Marilyn Manson
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation],… — Frederick Soddy
If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again. — Mark Twain
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going… — Bayard Rustin
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty… — Eric Hoffer
Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and… — Timothy Ball
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods. — Joseph Goebbels
Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results do… — Woody Harrelson
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is… — Bergen Evans
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them. — Saint Augustine
As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility… — Hermann Joseph Muller
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the… — Edsger Dijkstra
Donâ€™t misuse the pencil and donâ€™t torment the paper. — Uri Shulevitz
Over Legislation is not necessarily a virtue. It often leads to misuse of law. — Arun Jaitley
Worry is a misuse of your imagination. — Chris Hardwick

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