Misquoting Quotes

#1. The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors.

Richard Dawkins

#2. People are always misquoting me.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#3. How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.

John Hagee

#4. Never speak ill of the dead, insult his kin instead.

Brian Spellman

#5. Funny how to celebrate peace we seem to want to simulate war.

Anthony Doerr

#6. So, Lord Auditor Coz. Did you find some fun?

Do I look cheerful?

More like manic.

It's a joy, Ivan, an absolute joy. The ImpSec internal Security system is lying to me.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. Such are the humiliations of the travel writer in the late 20th century: go to the ends of the earth to search for the most exotic heretics in the world, and you will find that they have cornered the kebab business at the end of your street in London.

William Dalrymple

#8. The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

Charles De Montesquieu

#9. As one mouth closes, another always opens.

Brian Spellman

#10. Bars over the door, but not the window, and the roof looked

Lisa Scottoline

#11. Too bad we don't have a flashlight."
"Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.

James Dashner

#12. It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.

Neal Shusterman

#13. After the New Yorker piece I decided that I would never give another interview to anyone on any subject and that I would keep away from all places where I would be likely to be interviewed. If you say nothing it is difficult for someone to get it wrong.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. This was not even a matter of putting two and two together; it was looking at four.

Jeff Lindsay

#15. Life imitates art and art imitates life until both imitate imitation - Reality TV.

Brian Spellman

#16. Many people today have discarded the Bible's clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires.

Billy Graham

#17. I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.

Donald Cargill

#18. Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.

Brian Spellman

#19. When the only rule is there are no rules becomes literal, we'll all become illiterate and unable to offend one another at all.

Brian Spellman

#20. Always go with your first impetuosity.

Brian Spellman

#21. Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

Allan Bloom

#22. The late bird gets the fish that got the worm.

Brian Spellman

#23. Nostalgia was never what it used to be.

Brian Spellman

#24. The power of the gospel lies[ ... ] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God's new world has begun.

N. T. Wright

#25. The early worm gets bird shit.

Brian Spellman