Misconceived Quotes

#1. Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

Anne Tyler

#2. Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

Alice Walker

#3. I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.

Laura Linney

#4. The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

Frederic Bastiat

#5. Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.

Terry Brooks

#6. I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

Victoria Azarenka

#7. There's this kind of war on running - people keep telling you you'll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that you need go to a special running store before you try it. There's this totally misconceived notion that it's hard to do, and it's not.

Christopher McDougall

#8. Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a common ancestor that lived billions of years ago. Yet most of the life that exists on Earth has never been properly classified.

Paul Davies

#9. Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.
Those whom I deemed
Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,
Have aged and lost our old affinity:
One has to change to stay akin to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.

Christopher Hitchens

#11. Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Jane Austen

#12. Don't answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. I've always found that if you live in a cramped place, you have cramped thoughts.

Craig Taylor

#14. I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.

Art Alexakis

#15. People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

Scott Weiland

#16. We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

Rebecca Lim

#17. If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.

David Lynch

#18. Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.

Madeleine Stowe

#19. It was misconceived because Johnson appeared to think the kind of tactics that worked in a Texas saloon would work in Vietnam: beat a man, then stop beating him and say, Give in, or I'll beat you some more.

Niall Ferguson

#20. [Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Adrienne Rich

#21. There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.

Marianne Williamson

#22. There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

C.S. Lewis

#23. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Warren Bennis

#24. I am not surprised Cameron says he supports what Gillard is doing in Australia because we have, in the U.K., a totally misconceived climate change plan as well.

Nigel Lawson

#25. Our moral foundation is built on the fundamental law that God (if there is a God, which there is not) would not wish to be worshipped in the perverted and misconceived ways of human beings, with their righteous violence and prejudices and hypocrisies. Doubt, or cease being moral.

Joshua Ferris

#26. We don't have marriage in Cokyri."
My eyebrows shot upward. "You don't have ... marriage? Well then, how do you ... I mean where ... where do your children come from?

Cayla Kluver