Misnomers List Quotes & Sayings

The authors of recent histories of mass killing are adamant that the idea of an unprecedented "century of genocide" (the 20th) is a myth. On their first page Chalk and Jonassohn write, "Genocide has been practiced in all regions of the world and during all periods in history," and add that their eleven case studies of pre-20th-century genocides "are not intended to be either exhaustive or representative. — Steven Pinker

Objects hide their data behind abstractions and expose functions that operate on that data. Data structure expose their data and have no meaningful functions. — Robert C. Martin

If Britney Spears would paint her ass green, I'm sure you would spot green asses all over L.A., as soon as the word was out. — Billie Joe Armstrong

He wanted to know about day-to-day life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted them, but he read novel after novel and was disappointed: — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you. — James MacDonald

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented. — Joe Torre

Never forget to be kind when you have to be critical. — Debasish Mridha

Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilney
and castles and abbeys made usually the charm of those reveries which his image did not fill. — Jane Austen

only because language has something in common with the world that it can be used to picture the world, so it is only because of logic that our sentences have meaning at all. — Dan Cryan

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe