Quotes About Misleading

but why he should say one thing so positively, and mean another all the while, was most unaccountable! How were people, at that rate, to be understood?

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

Most banks tell their customers that they only pay a small upfront fee for international payments. But in reality, customers pay much more.

People who are running for office mislead the American people by saying that there's a three-point plan or a bumper sticker kind of way of bringing down gasoline prices. The fact of the matter is that nobody can do that. The price of oil is set on the global economy. People who have looked at this closely and hard know that's the case.

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

Hear my wife speak of John Lewis and you might picture a stately pleasure dome of ornamental cascades and hanging gardens, staffed by muscular Centaurs who know all there is to know about kitchenware and soft furnishings. But really it's just a big hall full of wanky chrome fridges.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry because I opened a magazine and I saw myself in a picture on a motorcycle, and the headline was, 'I'm getting married next month.'

You could have knocked me down with a feather,' said Lady Abbott, quite untruly. The feather had not been grown by bird that could have disturbed her balance for an instant.

I felt as if I had stepped on the place where the last stair ought to have been, but wasn't.

The journalistic cliché that this is the -information age- is misleading if it suggests that in the past, either recent or distant, we did not depend on information.

Be careful of averages and how they're applied. One way that they can fool you is if the average combines samples from disparate populations. This can lead to absurd observations such as: On average, humans have one testicle.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

Of course you didn't volunteer the information, or even damn well admit it. But shit, Uther, I came to you and confronted you with what I'd worked out, and you Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Well, you're too professional to give away anything that could come back to bite you, but if you'd wanted to mislead me or leave me thinking I was wrong you could have.

The value of the new A&W burger depended on consumers comparing two fractions: 1/3 and 1/4. But fractions are difficult for everyone, because they're parts of things as opposed to whole objects. We like to count things, and fractions don't equal "things." So, we jump to the closest available whole numbers. 4 is bigger than 3, so we mistakenly infer that a 1/4-pounder is a bigger burger than a 1/3-pounder.

Irwin's legacy proved a dangerous one. Today's presenters often close in on wildlife, forcing dangerous animals into interactions that can be physical, confrontational, and extremely stressful for both parties. Audiences are misled into thinking that invading wild animals' space is acceptable. Charming and charismatic hosts often behave in ways that end up hurting the wildlife they profess to love.

Adam Welz noted in his Guardian blog NatureUp that much of Yukon Men is grossly misleading.15 He could find no evidence to support the claim that there have been twenty fatal wolf attacks in Alaska in the past ten years. He is also baffled why Discovery would produce and broadcast a "factual" show that portrays wolves as "man-eating monsters straight out of Victorian fairytales, a serious threat to life and limb,

Graphic footage of shark attacks and feeding frenzies might make for thrilling entertainment, but they actively damage public sentiment toward animals whose very survival is in question. By misleading audiences and inspiring fear and terror, these television programs are harming the conservation movement.

The hand doesn't need to be quicker than the eye if the eye is looking in the wrong place. Everything the magician does is about misleading the audience, everything: how he stands, where he looks, where he points and especially what he says. He will never be doing what he says he is doing, and if he tells you what he's about to do, he's lying.

People say how amazing communications are these days, because you can feel as if you're in the same room as someone in Australia.But you don't really feel that way.You keep telling each other news about your lives,but it feels false.

It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Dershowitz may have felt justified in misleading the jury because, in his words, "the courtroom oath—'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'—is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath…indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth.