Misstatements Quotes & Sayings

How many languages do we really speak? — Alfredo Jaar

They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with. — Gene Roddenberry

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that's chaos can you produce chaos? Alice asked certainly I can produce chaos I said I produced chaos she regarded the chaos chaos is handsome and attractive she said and more durable than regret I said and more nourishing than regret she said — Donald Barthelme

There are too many people, and too few human beings. — Robert Zend

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion. — Ian Frazier

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much. — Sam Walton

It is no longer necessary to preach sonorously of the sinful and deleterious effect of liquor on the human mind and body; the essential evil is recognised scientifically, and only the sophistry of conscious immorality remains to be combated. Brewers and distillers still strive clumsily to delude the public by the transparent misstatements of their advertisements, and periodicals of easy conscience still permit these advertisements to disgrace their pages; but the end of such pernicious pretension is not remote. The drinker of yesterday flaunted his voice before all without shame; the average drinker of today must needs resort to excuses. — H.P. Lovecraft

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice ... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information. — Yuri Milner

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness? — Judith McNaught

The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity ... — George Herbert

God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure. — Catherine Doherty

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. — Dan Quayle

Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary. — Anton Chekhov

There are so many errors and misstatements in that list that I won't even begin to name them. Obama was right about one thing, though - Islam has always been a part of America's story. — Barack Obama

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it. — Chris Hadfield