Miscounted Quotes & Sayings

Both citizens and noncitizens bribed by the Party by means of jobs and liquor cast as many illegal ballots as they can in a single day, after which said votes will be either tossed in the river or purposefully miscounted. — Lyndsay Faye

Because sometimes people expect more, they expect their desires to be met, they fancy a future built on the pillars of their faith. But love is weak and impermanent and thus when the time comes, the pillars begin to crumble.
Then again that doesn't mean they can't be built again. They can, they surely can, when the times are favorable and the state of affairs, sound. — Chirag Tulsiani

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination! — Walter E. Williams

Hide your kids, hide your wife, don't change the channel, this is monday night raw and The Miz is the WWE champion. — Alex Riley

Mixture produced the Islam that would need constant protection from mixture. — Michael Muhammad Knight

The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion. — Sarah Noffke

So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
-Hawk
Who had been Archmage
The Other Wind — Ursula K. Le Guin

You must have been going very fast."
"I was, until I hit the fence. — Anthony Horowitz

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination — Jerome K. Jerome

I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error! — Peter Greenaway

Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things - otherwise I've miscounted. — Ann Voskamp

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear ... For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines. — John Dewey

Since the accident, Jonathan had noticed, she held on to things, a doorframe, a chair, as it either she or the world needed steadying. — Margot Livesey

I guess I'm still holding on to something that I know will probably never happen, because somewhere deep down inside me, I have this little piece of hope that someday, it will. — Drake

There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder. — Laura Hall