Top 100 Mis'ry'n'barrassment Quotes
#2. Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.
Theodor Adorno
#3. Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it contribute to that? Sure. Any medicine can be mis-used. But I think that there is a great courage, innocence and magic to him that more than a legend is about connection.
Sean Penn
#4. I think ... that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
Neil Gaiman
#5. But yet they that have no Science , are in better, and nobler condition with their naturall Prudence; than men, that by their mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd generall rules.
Thomas Hobbes
#6. Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.
Victor Hugo
#7. No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy, when mis'ry is at hand.
Dante Alighieri
#8. Be inspired by who it is you already are.
Peter Mis
#9. Why comes there an hour when we leave this azure, and why does life continue afterwards?
Victor Hugo
#10. Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
John Dewey
#11. It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?
Chris DiBona
#12. I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.
Anne Hathaway
#13. Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise.
Victor Hugo
#14. You don't get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad ... it's incumbent upon you, if you're going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing
Mark Rippetoe
#15. I'm very excited to once again perform the National Anthem at Michigan International Speedway for the GFS Marketplace 400. The fans at MIS have always been great to me and it is always an honor to perform for them, whether it's a concert or the National Anthem.
Julie Roberts
#16. God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!
Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!
what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.
Matthew Arnold
#17. To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
Victor Hugo
#18. You always have everything better than the rest, even pain.
Victor Hugo
#19. At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..
Louis Armstrong
#20. The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.
Dean Frazer
#21. A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.
Horace Walpole
#22. Love is a fault; be it so. Fantine was innocence floating upon the surface of this fault.
Victor Hugo
#23. When we're stressed, our brains persistently mis-predict what will make us happy.
Kelly McGonigal
#24. I love 'Les Mis' so much, like, since I was younger; I saw it when I was like, you know, 10, and I've seen it almost 18 times.
June Diane Raphael
#25. Eponine and Azelma did not notice Cosette. To them she was like the dog. These three little girls could not count twenty-four years among them all, and they already represented all human society; on one side envy, on the other disdain.
Victor Hugo
#26. Beautiful is not something you become. It's something you already are.
Peter Mis
#27. It is the process of mis-education that inhibits the full potential of a nation.
Malcolm X
#28. Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be surprised how much better your swing will get if you let your natural athletic ability shine. So go after it.
Keegan Bradley
#29. Don't count your blessings. Live them.
Peter Mis
#30. It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.
Victor Hugo
#31. What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off an explosion or predict what kind of explosion it will be.
Victor Hugo
#32. Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
Victor Hugo
#33. We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A ... student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education ...
Victor Papanek
#34. France is great because she is France.
Victor Hugo
#36. In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; there is bravery, youth, honor, enthusiasm, the ideal, conviction, the eager fury of the gamester, and above all, intervals of hope.
Victor Hugo
#37. Mis-define the law of brotherly love by giving men a claim on their neighbors and you have destroyed freedom, justified despotism, and assumed that there can be a master mind, in an ordinary human being, as the mind of God.
Frederick Nymeyer
#38. For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging.
Sue Monk Kidd
#39. They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!
Phyllis Diller
#40. Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
William Congreve
#41. I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.
Marion Cotillard
#42. The great sadness," Helms said in an oral history recorded for the LBJ Library, "was our ignorance - or innocence, if you like - which led us to mis-assess, not comprehend, and make a lot of wrong decisions.
Tim Weiner
#43. Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only seen among men.
Victor Hugo
#44. Don't get me wrong, some of the mis-informed articles I have read over the last few weeks have been incredibly frustrating, but for my part I fully appreciate the opportunity I have been given and want to grasp it firmly.
Adam Rickitt
#45. Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.
Victor Hugo
#46. Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.
Victor Hugo
#47. Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.
Philip Zimbardo
#48. My go to karaoke song is 'Stars' from 'Les Mis', which is Javert's song. And it's super strange, and every time it comes on people are really weirded out, but that's what I do.
June Diane Raphael
#49. To competently perform rectifying security service, two critical incident response elements are necessary: information and organization.
Robert E. Davis
#50. When we say Bharat Vijay Rally, we intend to focus on making India emerge victorious over price rise, corruption, unemployment and mis-governance.
Narendra Modi
#51. Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the "common people." But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us. I think they're guilty of a gross mis-statement of fact-we are the uncommon people-
Ralph Ellison
#52. Then all the charm
Is broken
all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#53. To handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime.
Carter G. Woodson
#54. If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Mark Twain
#55. One would have called it a luminous wound.
Victor Hugo
#56. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.
Thomas Gray
#57. Right before I start the putter back, I think about making solid contact. This brings your attention to the back of the ball and helps keep your head still at impact, which is a must. Many amateurs take a peek down the line too soon, and that can cause all sorts of mis-hits.
Ernie Els
#58. Grantaire, earthbound in doubt, loved to watch Enjolras soaring in the upper air of faith. He needed Enjolras. Without being fully aware of it, or seeking to account for it himself, he was charmed by that chaste, upright, inflexible and candid nature.
Victor Hugo
#59. Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.
Wally Amos
#60. To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#61. Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.
Ivanka Trump
#62. Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys.
Victor Hugo
#63. I fear your faith has been mis- placed - but then, faith usually is.
John Green
#64. If no one loved, the sun would go out.
Victor Hugo
#65. Our entire approach to the banking and financial services business is risk-adjusted returns. We believe that in most parts of the world, and including pockets in India, banking tends to mis-price risk.
Uday Kotak
#66. Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her
Victor Hugo
#68. He asked himself ... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.
Victor Hugo
#69. Partisans are more likely to consume news sources that confirm their ideological beliefs. People with more education are more likely to follow political news. Therefore, people with more education can actually become mis-educated.
Eli Pariser
#70. The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.
William Cowper
#71. I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.
Eliza Doolittle
#72. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
Victor Hugo
#73. Once in awhile you come across a company that is completely and utterly mis-priced,
Steve Eisman
#75. As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.
Dexter Fletcher
#76. You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#77. I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.
Hugh Jackman
#78. I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
Victor Hugo
#79. Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one.
Victor Hugo
#80. It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women.
Dave Hill
#81. Suffering did different things to different people ... Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.
Naomi Ragen
#82. Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#83. For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.
Victor Hugo
#84. A bird alone could have extricated himself from that place.
Victor Hugo
#85. A young man, when sliced up by glass From a footballer's tragic mis-pass Said, 'Hey, there's no harm Done; it's only an arm. I'm just thankful it wasn't my arse.
J.L. Merrow
#86. Mistakes are just 'mis-takes,' or an action that we took that missed.
Bill Crawford
#87. I've seen everything from 'Wicked' to 'The Book Of Mormon,' and I don't make any bones of the fact that I love both. But 'Les Mis' is not only my favorite musical, but it's also my favorite story. I love the book, which I read as a kid, and I identified so much with Jean Valjean.
Corey Taylor
#88. That it was no doubt a dark hour, but that he should get through it; that after all he held his destiny, evil as it might be, in his own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to that thought.
Victor Hugo
#89. He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, he lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, as the night comes when day is gone.
Victor Hugo
#91. When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
Victor Hugo
#92. We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society.
Jon Ronson
#93. For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or-to put the thing less cynically-we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice.
E. M. Forster
#94. It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
Herbert M. Shelton
#95. Don't get too close, mis amigos. Two reasons: I haven't completely broken 'em in yet. And they smell worse than camel butt.
Mark Frost
#96. [A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.
Jan Struther
#97. Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!
Victor Hugo
#98. Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing ...
Freya Stark
#99. For men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.
Victor Hugo
#100. All that he might have felt of love in his entire life melted into a sort of ineffable radiance.
Victor Hugo
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