Quotes About Misapply

#1. I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.

Gail Carriger

#2. If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.

Lucretius

#3. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Jane Austen

#4. An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Thomas Paine

#5. Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.

Hersh Shefrin

#6. GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages.

Neal Stephenson

#7. I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.

Willie Geist

#8. We must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.

Richard Jeni

#10. A scientist is never certain ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.

Richard P. Feynman

#11. They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?
'What does one do in America when one is sad - without alcohol?' asks Zwonimir.

Joseph Roth

#12. If we wait until life is in order before making our decision, we'll never make any

Judith McCoy Miller

#13. Pain is a ritual we all must endure." 2

Douglas Clegg

#14. You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.

Maxim Gorky

#15. I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Catherine The Great

#16. Even though [bullying] doesn't actually raise your stature, it might make you feel that way.

Rib Hillis

#17. Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

Marcel Proust

#18. If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

Paul Robeson

#19. At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

Aaron Patzer

#20. It is easy to speak God's name and to record his glory on paper and walls; but to praise God with an upright heart, to bless him for his benevolence, to call upon him in every distress, and to seek consolation from him - those are truly the greatest works, though rarely seen, alongside faith. When

Martin Luther