Misstates Quotes & Sayings

What I know: every relationship is its own place, a country you live in for awhile and then you leave. — Billie Hinton

Don't be ashamed or embarrassed to dream big. You're living your life with hope, that's a powerful thing. — Kara Goucher

Not every word is fit for every ear. — Elif Shafak

We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as "natural" (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, beyond counting. — Robert Charles Wilson

Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. It is the determined choice of trust over cynicism, of community over chaos. — George W. Bush

Here's the bottom line: where you are geographically affects where you are spiritually. A few years ago I came up with a simple formula: change of place + change of pace = change of perspective. — Mark Batterson

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late. — Edward R. Murrow

Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You're Either Lying Or Crazy. — Merlin Mann

Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that "animals try to spread their genes." That misstates the facts and it misstates the theory. Animals, including most people, know nothing about genetics and care even less. People love their children not because they want to spread their genes (consciously or unconsciously) but because they can't help it. That love makes them try to keep their children warm, fed, and safe. What is selfish is not the real motives of the person but the metaphorical motives of the genes that built the person. Genes "try" to spread themselves by wiring animals' brains so the animals love their kin and try to keep warm, fed, and safe. — Steven Pinker

Hygge" is like a good hug - but without the physical contact. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

The best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company. — Francis Spufford

That's a little unrealistic, don't you think?
So was the Final Solution, but it got pretty far, Leo points out. — Jodi Picoult

In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence. — Robert McFarlane