Misused Quotes

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Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of… — Phyllis McGinley
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism. — Jim Leach
If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people… — Richard Serra
I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every… — Anthony Braxton
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
Unfortunately, money is more often misused and abused than used intelligently. Most people haven't figured out how to use money wisely to truly enhance their… — Ernie J Zelinski
The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person.… — Richard Rohr
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. — Agnes Repplier
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. — Sigmund Freud
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start… — Larry Flynt
Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. — Tommy Lasorda
Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging. — Joyce Meyer
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. — Herbert Spencer
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware… — Lionel Shriver
Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed… — Libba Bray
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and… — Sigrid Undset
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake
Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very… — Katherine Paterson
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused — Charles Dickens
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into… — Charles Dickens

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