Quotes About Misused Words

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

Jim Leach

#2. 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

#3. How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

#4. I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don't want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.

Stephen King

#5. Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

Oscar Wilde

#6. To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

J.C. Ryle

#7. I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

Ann Goldstein

#8. Allah created the bonds of family, so Who are you to cut bonds that Allah has created.

Nouman Ali Khan

#9. True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

N. T. Wright

#10. It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.

Patrick Carman

#11. Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.

Bill Gates

#12. Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.

Lisa Bevere

#13. Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

Oscar Wilde

#14. 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

#15. I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.

David Leslie

#16. She played pretty much every sport, her favorite being volleyball. My favorite part of her: she had that smart, I'm-too-good-for-this-I-read-Vonnegut attitude about her.

RH Ramsey

#17. By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world.

Diana DeGette

#18. No wonder nothing had worked. No one else was him.

Kristan Higgins

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

Doug Stanhope