Top 78 Misused Quotes

#1. Coward is the most misused word in our society.

Doug Stanhope

Misused Quotes #1158
#2. Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

Napoleon Hill

Misused Quotes #20128
#3. Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused.

David Shields

Misused Quotes #32349
#4. The pleasure of praise and reward must energize, the pain of blame and punishment. must teach, else teacher and society have misused these social tools.

Abraham Myerson

Misused Quotes #144253
#5. Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.

Clarence John Laughlin

Misused Quotes #194198
#6. We're all toys." Ophelia sat down in a huff. "Broken and misused and thrown away." Ophelia looked to him. Her eyes were big, wet, and clear like river water. In that stare her soul shone as the diamond bright sky. "May as well play for a little while.

Eva Natsumi

Misused Quotes #196219
#7. How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

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#8. Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

Carl Sagan

Misused Quotes #226981
#9. The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.

James Gray

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#10. There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

Jim Leach

Misused Quotes #277938
#11. You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Misused Quotes #280551
#12. The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

Fanny Fern

Misused Quotes #309678
#13. Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

Hermann Hesse

Misused Quotes #332224
#14. Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Sigmund Freud

Misused Quotes #344902
#15. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

John Milton

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#16. The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

Cliff Stearns

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#17. It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Misused Quotes #390774
#18. The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

Larry Flynt

Misused Quotes #426330
#19. Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Hans Kung

Misused Quotes #440854
#20. It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Misused Quotes #499955
#21. Responsive design is not a flawed methodology; it is only when it is misused and treated as an add-on instead of an overarching philosophy

Tom Barker

Misused Quotes #506246
#22. I don't care what you think of Michael Vick - whether you think he's being mistreated or misused, or just think he's not that good, whatever. He can play for my team any day

Phil Simms

Misused Quotes #544835
#23. I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

Alice Sebold

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#24. I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

Anthony Braxton

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#25. A people who never misused the powers of government would never misuse independence, and a people which always governed itself well would not need to be governed.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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#26. Dzin wasn't the problem. It was a tool, and could be misused, like any tool. The problem was that I wasn't a demon in heart and spirit, either, and I didn't know what I was except that being a demon in body had taken everything I had been.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Misused Quotes #638501
#27. 90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

Bill Walsh

Misused Quotes #650369
#28. Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.

Lisa Bevere

Misused Quotes #721956
#29. Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

Octavia Butler

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#30. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

William Shakespeare

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#31. No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Charles Dickens

Misused Quotes #797006
#32. Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

Libba Bray

Misused Quotes #805204
#33. Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Misused Quotes #810074
#34. My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

Stephen King

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#35. Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Iris Apfel

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#36. It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Michael Kinsley

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#37. Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

Phyllis McGinley

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#38. The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.

Dagobert D. Runes

Misused Quotes #1017020
#39. If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

B.R. Ambedkar

Misused Quotes #1024700
#40. I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

Maya Angelou

Misused Quotes #1034183
#41. A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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#42. The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

Pico Iyer

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#43. As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

Jonas Mekas

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#44. Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

Peter Wilson

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#45. Where the federal government and the taxpayer has had funds misused, we need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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#46. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's misused oppurtunities!

Charles Dickens

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#47. We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

Wesley Clark

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#48. The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.

Herbert Hainer

Misused Quotes #1217519
#49. I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Richard Dawkins

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#50. Should the discovery of fire have been avoided because arsonists can misuse it? Any kind of information can be misused by those who are determined to do so. The place to stop the misuse of knowledge is not at the point of inquiry, but at the point of misuse.

Arthur R. Jensen

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#51. There are great, obviously really, really wonderful and important journalists out there. And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story can then make the difference. So it is a very powerful thing to be. And when misused, it's very sad.

Angelina Jolie

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#52. It is a great privilege to be poor, Peter. You must not mistake, however, and imagine it a virtue; it is but a privilege, and one also that may be terribly misused.

George MacDonald

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#53. Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans - and misunderstood by people struggling in good faith with difficult ideas - than quantum mechanics.

Sean Carroll

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#54. The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

Christopher Wood

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#55. Chances are given and taken, used and misused, but a chance never given is a chance never taken and a life never lived.

Joshua Smith

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#56. Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Tommy Lasorda

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#57. The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.

Richard Rohr

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#58. In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

Pete Seeger

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#59. Sure, food stamps are occasionally misused, but anyone familiar with business knows that the abuse of food subsidies is far greater in the corporate suite. Every time an executive wines and dines a hot date on the corporate dime, the average taxpayer helps foot the bill.

Nicholas Kristof

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#60. I think the media projected the case of Asia Bibi in a right way. They have given the importance of this case and especially how the blasphemy law is being misused for the victimization [of religious minorities].

Shahbaz Bhatti

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#61. No language exists that cannot be misused ... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

Carl Jung

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#62. But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.

Dana Rohrabacher

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#63. Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.

Gary Zukav

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#64. If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

Richard Serra

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#65. I broke her heart and misused her trust. I lied and cheated on her. But still she loves me like the old days and patiently waiting for the day that I may feel and understand her true feelings.

M.F. Moonzajer

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#66. If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?

Jacques Maritain

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#67. Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

Agnes Repplier

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#68. If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

John Howard Griffin

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#69. Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

Jimenez Lai

Misused Quotes #1696496
#70. Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

Rooney Mara

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#71. The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

William Blake

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#72. Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

Walter Martin

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#73. The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others who do not comprehend its significance.

Billy Graham

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#74. Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

Aaron Swartz

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#75. Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused ... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences ... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

Taryn Simon

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#76. There is no harm in being used. We all use one another daily. But were you misused by me? I can think of no one alive who could have performed better under the demands of your fate.

Thomm Quackenbush

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#77. In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

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#78. Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

Joyce Meyer

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