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Quotes About Misleading

as had the graffiti spray-painted in red on one of the corridor walls: THE CAKE IS A LIE.
~ Ernest Cline
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
~ Ernest Holmes
I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
~ Davy Jones
There are some very plain, very simple offences in the Fraud Act 2006 that can be applied to price manipulation. For example, there's fraud by false representation. This is aimed at people who say something misleading to line their pockets or cause financial harm to someone else.
~ Emily Thornberry
Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.
~ Mitch Kapor
Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.
~ Hrithik Roshan
Even before V. P. Singh was shifted, the media was creating an impression that he was facing difficulties. This was totally incorrect.
~ Rajiv Gandhi
Dogsborough: That stock-offering was like the bowl of salted nuts They put on the bar for free: satisfies your hunger for nothing, But leaves you with a costly thirst.
~ Bertolt Brecht
You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.
~ Bill Clinton
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
95 per cent of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
He passed a hair salon called Snip Away, which sounded more like a vasectomy clinic than a beauty parlor.
~ Harlan Coben
I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.
~ Steve Albini
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
~ Solon
There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight. It is essential that the critic should keep himself constantly aware of that fact.
~ Sidney Dekker
La soga parecía tranquila cuando dormía sobre la mesa o en el suelo.Nadie la hubiera creído capaz de ahorcar a nadie.
~ Silvina Ocampo
Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
~ sir winston churchill
In his response, James argued: "... all direct 'encouragement' - the thing you enjoin me on - encouragement of the short cut and say 'artless' order, is really more likely than not to be shallow and misleading...
~ Siri Hustvedt
Looks can be deceiving.
~ Meg Cabot
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. —G. C. Lichtenberg
~ Benjamin Graham
Domestic animals expect food when they see the person who usually feeds them. We know that all these rather crude expectations of uniformity are liable to be misleading. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
~ Bertrand Russell
This man Paul has persuaded and misled a considerable number of people by saying that gods made by hand are not gods! Acts 19:26
~ Beth Moore
There's a degree of deception in silence.
~ Don Lemon