Top 46 Most Misused Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history
Christopher Wood
#3. Coward is the most misused word in our society.
Doug Stanhope
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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.
#7. 90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.
Bill Walsh
#8. Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.
Lisa Bevere
#9. 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
#11. No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused
Charles Dickens
#12. 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
#13. Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#14. My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.
Stephen King
#15. Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.
Iris Apfel
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.
B.R. Ambedkar
#20. I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.
Maya Angelou
#21. A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
Fanny Fern
#26. Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
Napoleon Hill
#27. Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused.
David Shields
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
Jim Leach
#35. You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud
#39. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
John Milton
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
Hans Kung
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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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