Misleading Famous Quotes & Sayings

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read. — Molly Ringwald

How would we feel if you could pay extra to smoke on airplanes? When we decide something is a bad idea in general for society, we don't want the rich to be able to buy their way out of it. — Peter Gleick

The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination. — Jeff Goins

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. — Bo Bennett

What are you doing?" I asked, confused. I hadn't expected him to kiss me. I think I would have been less surprised if the man had bitten me. — K.R. Willis

Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words. — Will Schwalbe

The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is. — Leonard Jacobson

Blindness to larger contexts is a constitutional defect of human thinking imposed by the painful necessity of being able to concentrate on only one thing at a time. We forget as we virtuously concentrate on that one thing that hundreds of other things are going on at the same time and on every side of us, things that are just as important as the object of our study and that are all interconnected in ways that we cannot even guess. Sad to say, our picture of the world to the degree to which it has that neatness, precision, and finality so coveted by scholarship is a false one.
I once studied with a famous professor who declared that he deliberately avoided the study of any literature east of Greece lest the new vision destroy the architectonic perfection of his own celebrated construction of the Greek mind. His picture of that mind was immensely impressive but, I strongly suspect, completely misleading. — Hugh Nibley

Most robotic heads have 20 motors. Mine have 32. — David Hanson