Quotes About Misleading

Velcro: what a rip-off.

SINCE OUR REAL ESTATE AUCTION DID NOT TAKE PLACE UNTIL tomorrow, we had a long afternoon and evening of what Rita called free time, which seemed like a very misleading thing to call something that cost so much.

And as the night dragged on, so did the terrible, dreary introspection. Had I been misleading myself my entire life?

Grape-Nuts is a mysterious product. You open the box, pour it in the bowl, no grapes, no nuts. What's the story?

Beer goggles are no match for atrocious lighting.

The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that a cover is a sort of translation, that is, an interpretation of my words in another language -- a visual one. It represents the text, but isn't part of it. It can't be too literal. It has to have its own take on the book. Like a translation, a cover can be faithful to at the book, or it can be misleading. In theory, like a translation, it should be in the service of the book, but this dynamic isn't always the case.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work

Somebody said there are three kinds of lies: black lies, white lies, and statistics.

Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

She could see herself still blushing and he was looking at her with those big dark eyes, as if he knew. But that was a trick of his, not an intentional trick but a misleading sign. He saw nothing.It looked as if he could see everything and people always gave him credit for it.

Consider, too, for a moment, Chomsky's misleading comparison of the Soviet and American presses as "mirror images." In fact, the ignorance imposed on the Soviet public by government-controlled media and official

I have lied so often that I've lost track of the truth.

That's what social media is: the fronts of the postcards, rarely what's written on the backs.

Misleading the ABC is not quite the same as misleading the parliament as a political crime.

Real trouble doesn't walk around with a ponytail. It doesn't have a Mohawk or special shoelace patterns. Real trouble has a bad complexion and a Windbreaker.

The appearance of right often leads us wrong.

A goal which is infinitely remote is not a goal at all, it is a deception.

The most dangerous people in the world are those with a grain of knowledge who promote themselves as authorities or authority figures. They only proceed to give half truthful, half right answers and in the end we all lose because of them.

They say statistics by their nature don't lie, but in my opinion they sometimes do and damnably at that.

I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.

It's nothing for you to worry about." "Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.' " "Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.

What is this errand, and when will you come back?" "It's nothing for you to worry about." "Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.'" "Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.