Misstated Quotes

#1. The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#3. It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

Paul Davies

#4. THERE CAN BE FEW delights in the world as pleasant as a Siracusan spring. The fragrance of the lemon, orange, apricot, almond and peach blossoms pervade the city, enriched by the moist, salty sea breezes. On

Tariq Ali

#5. She has an eye like a man-eating fish

P.G. Wodehouse

#6. Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Phil Crosby

#7. If Bradley Manning was the person who copied the secret US diplomatic cables to WikilLeaks, he is a hero for exposing human rights abuses.

Peter Tatchell

#8. What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#10. The roof is on its side. Does that mean the boat is on its side . . . or ?"
"YES that's what it means. What are you talking about!!"
"I didn't know how boats this big work, alright.

Trenton Oldfield

#11. He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#12. I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

Guy Debord

#13. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Marilyn Monroe