Misapplied Quotes

#1. [T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).

Richard Baxter

#2. What I am trying to do is something different an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism , a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner , the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.

Claude Debussy

#3. Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

Lancelot Hogben

#4. Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

Max Anders

#5. Well, do be careful, my love. Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied.

Gail Carriger

#6. When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

John Milton

#7. Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Alan Dershowitz

#8. chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.

Arnold Bennett

#9. Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Carl Sagan

#10. We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

H.G.Wells

#11. This table is a pigeon trap. A dozen different forks and knives and spoons. Four different goblets. All of them just waiting to be knocked over or misapplied and mishandled. It's a wonder anyone is ever tempted to eat.

Siri Mitchell

#12. Sometimes are responses are entirely misdirected, misallocated and misapplied; in other words it's all reflex and nothing of reflection.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Arnold Bennett

#14. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.

William Shakespeare

#15. People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.

Muriel Spark

#16. There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

James Madison

#17. Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

Sloane Crosley

#18. Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.

Norm MacDonald

#19. I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

Matthew Settle

#20. Chapter 4. Configuring Your Jenkins Server

John Ferguson Smart

#21. If someone already knows you from being in the trenches with you on this TV schedules, and then you have a little bit more time, it's a treat for them, as well, because they can give you more.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#22. If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.

Robert Patrick

#23. How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

Pope Francis

#24. God comes into our heart - He finds it full - He begins to break our comforts and to make it empty; then there is more room for grace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon