Top 13 Misstated Phrases Quotes
#1. The line between good and evil does not lie between "us" and "them," between the West and the rest, between Left and Right, between rich and poor. That fateful line runs down the middle of each of us, every human society, every individual.
N. T. Wright
#2. The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .
Roger Hilsman
#3. In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister.
Princess Margaret
#4. If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
William Law
#5. What happened to her?" he asked. "Poor taste in boyfriends,
Neil Gaiman
#6. Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.
Alafair Burke
#7. As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.
Liu Yang
#8. Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
Tom Peters
#9. In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#10. Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.
V.S. Naipaul
#11. The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.
Matthew Yglesias
#12. You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.
Cary Fowler