Misplaced Quotes

• Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

  John Otway

  Long, Enthusiasm, Way

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• When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Creativity, Power, Determine

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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 the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Responsibility

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

  Theodor Adorno

  Successful, People, Done

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• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Liberty, Weight, Process

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

  Terry Goodkind

  Cosmos, Maine, Felt

  "Moving to Maine: The Essential Guide to Get You There and What You Need to Know to Stay". Book by Vicki Doudera, 2000.

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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

  Cutting, Priorities, Environmental

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• I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced

  Ruby Wax

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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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

  War, Bihar, Cold

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.

  S.J. Watson

  Trust Me, Admission

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• Bill is about moving forward on a long overdue provision to protect vulnerable paid farm workers in Alberta to the same degree that they are protected in every other province in the country, and we feel confident that once people see how the bill actually applies to the regular family farm, they will see that a lot of the concerns were perhaps misplaced. And it's unfortunate that we created a situation that made people worry; that was not ever our intention.

  Rachel Notley

  Country, Moving, Worry

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

  James MacDonald

  Determine

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• What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do, we make a lot of errors, you know, you can't help it. Mistakes all over the place, but out of naïveté or, you know, misplaced kindness or something like that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kindness, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

  Keshia Chante

  Loyalty, Destiny, Ruins

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• Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Animal, Effort

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman, 2000.

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• Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

  James Grant

  Recessions

  "Whistling Past the Economic Graveyard: The Audacity of Misplaced Hope" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hate, Thug, Race

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• Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature.

  William Shakespeare

  Girl, Mistake, Office

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [35]

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• Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.

  James Levine

  Cutting, Fate, Reality

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• While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I fall in love with them. They are my possession, my mob whose forty minds, under my flashy and domineering control, are to become one, a mind unsullied by errors, unmarked by blots, contaminated by misplaced originalities outside the curriculum, and as full of facts as a pomegranate seed.

  Hal Porter

  Love, Children, Fall

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• In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.

  Ernest Starling

  Ambition, Knowledge, Science

  Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”

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• It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  Damian Lewis

  Running, Men, Views

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• There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Travel, Lost Ones, World

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Giving, Justice

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.96, Canongate Books

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• She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  Jane Austen

  Ignorance, Vanity, Knowing

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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