Misused Quotes

59 Misused quotes by 54 unique authors

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
Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last… — Hermann Hesse
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,”… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it. — B R Ambedkar
I hope a start at getting some oil out of the enormous Alaska field isn't indefinitely mired in a bureaucratic morass as a result of… — Malcolm Forbes
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or… — Sigmund Freud
As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications… — Francis Collins
I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda. — Richard Dawkins
Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds… — Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and… — Gary Zukav

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