Quotes About Misleading

All is gas and gaiters.

it was a delusive pie, the crust being like a disappointing head, phrenologically speaking: full of lumps and bumps, with nothing particular underneath.

WebMD is like one of those choose your own adventure books where the result is always death.

My father told me all about the birds and bees. The liar — I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

He was also aware that memory could mislead you, or be lost. He vividly remembered the day he was married, for example, but everything blurred in and around the time his wife had died, and that was much, much later.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

La gente aguantaba que les mordiera un lobo pero lo que verdaderamente les sacaba de quicio era que les mordiera una oveja.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

Clean sheets is a misleading statistic. It gives you the platform to win a game but you can lead 5-0 and concede a goal.

Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.

Fulgens hoc aurum praestringit oculos [This gold with its glitter blinds the eyes]. Varius.

I definitely smelled a delicious odor of steak and onions. But it turned out to be only a dirty shirt.

Become the change you want to see—those are words I live by. Instead of belittling, uplift. Instead of demolishing, rebuild. Instead of misleading, light the way so that all of us can stand on higher ground.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

It was in Jobs's nature to mislead or be secretive when he felt it was warranted. But he also indulged in being brutally honest at times, telling the truths that most of us sugarcoat or suppress. Both the dissembling and the truth-telling were simply different aspects of his Nietzschean attitude that ordinary rules didn't apply to him.

98% of all statistics are made up.

Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.

Like when people say they slept like a baby. Do they mean they slept well? Or do they mean they woke up every ten minutes, screaming?

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.

The shadkhn was impressing the young woman with the boundless virtues of a female and ended: "And to look at, she's a regular picture!" The young man could not wait for his blind date. But when he accosted the shadkhn the next day, his voice was frosty: "Her eyes are crossed, her nose is crooked, and when she smiles one side of her mouth goes down—" "Just a minute," interrupted the shadkhn. "Is it my fault you don't like Picasso?

This heavish sweety fragrance,' Thag muttered to himself, 'that rises, or that roses, isn't fit for human noses, and it tricks the minds of men. Three times two is eight,' he said, 'and one is ten.