Misuse Quotes
121 quotes by 119 authors
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All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
— Ellis Peters
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Your soul is the root, its the root of everything. And when He tells you how to handle sex, He made it, its awesome, its…
— Lacey Mosley
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Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
— Kjell Magne Bondevik
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Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.
— Ron Paul
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NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.
— Newt Gingrich
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The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.
— Aldo Leopold
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A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You…
— Vernon Howard
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I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is…
— Rush Limbaugh
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There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a…
— Meghan Daum
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You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.
— Michael Levy, Baron Levy
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Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
— Jonathan Lethem
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Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
— Gilbert Highet
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Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and an incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of…
— Maximus the Confessor
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It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
— Salvatore J. Cordileone
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
— Adam Hamilton
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In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal…
— Bob Ney
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Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has…
— Edgar Mitchell
Who Wrote These Misuse Quotes
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