Misapplying Quotes

#1. This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

David Salle

#2. Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

Cotton Mather

#3. The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.

Barton Gellman

#4. You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

Peter Kreeft

#5. Change of any sort requires courage.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#6. You are an athlete if you are a dancer.

Sharon Lawrence

#7. Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

Walter Lippmann

#8. Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.

Dwight Yoakam

#9. If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

Thomas A. Edison

#11. She was fire, she was darkness, she was dust and blood and shadow.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. I think your imagination is your reality

Diana Vreeland