Quotes About Misusing

#1. My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.

Shirin Ebadi

#2. If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.

Lars Von Trier

#3. Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail.

Doug Bandow

#4. I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.

Frederick Soddy

#5. I say 'art' advisedly, for art is undefined, undefinable, and without limits. I can use the word without fear of misusing it, for it has no exact meaning. There are as many meanings as there are artists.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. You know what's wrong with humanity? ... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Dean Koontz

#7. To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

Michael Mandelbaum

#8. The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends ... The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

Peter McWilliams

#9. Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.

Kenneth Burke

#10. Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write

John Milton

#11. In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#12. But if we do not dream, then I think perhaps we are misusing our heads. They are not on our shoulders only to be farms for hair.

Brian Doyle

#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

#14. Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.

Jeff Wall

#15. Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

Judd Nelson

#16. The best dresses are like t-shirts - you just put them on and forget about them.

Marc Jacobs

#17. The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.

Josh Kopelman

#18. I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you.

Woody Allen

#19. I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction ... my obsession ...

Sylvia Day

#20. More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that's why they get them.

Romeo Dallaire

#21. Here are some key words to go along with shame: Inferior Alienated Embarrassed Minority Ridiculed Weak Powerless Failure Different Insulted Rejected Inadequate Humiliated Ignored Loser

Edward T. Welch

#22. Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Eric Metaxas

#23. I have brought you to the revel, now dance if you can!

William Wallace

#24. One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?

Pablo Picasso

#25. When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30.

Melissa Joan Hart

#26. Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Jean Cocteau

#27. If it's true, why do they leave us to live like this? With the hunger and the killings and the Games? And suddenly I hate this imaginary underground city of District 13 and those who sit by, watching us die. They're no better than the Capitol.

Suzanne Collins