Quotes About Misleading

She asked how I liked my tea and I told her with cream and sugar (but really, I like my tea to be coffee)

Deceivingly, Miss Neville, the word vodka means 'little water.' The Russians are masters of the understatement." - Lord Nash

Confidence is sexy, but sexy does not necessarily make someone confident, competent or able to do what they claim they can. Don't let looks fool you.

Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.

You cannot trust perception. Falling, at first, feels like flying.

Things don't always look as they seem.

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

Wow. Nice bike," I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

Janta mass fooling day

In the aftermath of events such as Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina, people want to know whether they were caused by climate change. These are bad questions and no answer can be given that is not misleading. It is like asking whether when a baseball player gets a base hit, it is caused by his .350 batting average. One cannot say "yes," but saying "no" falsely suggests that there is no relationship between his batting average and the base hit.

In addition to pool installers and flower shops, our customers include people who make a living bombarding people with email offers, or gaming Google's search algorithm, or figuring out which kind of misleading subject line is most likely to trick someone into opening a message. Online marketing is not quite as sleazy as Internet porn, but it's not much better, either.

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

Pinkville was called Pinkville because in the military maps, it was shaded a bright kind of shimmering pink, which signified what was called on the maps a 'built up' area, which was extremely misleading - 'built up' only meant there were little villages and it wasn't just desolate paddy land or unpopulated.

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

was always human and never pleasant and often misleading. Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy. The people who don't insist on their sorrow can often be the ones who feel it most strongly.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics?

Things don't always look as they seem. Make of it what you will.

Commandment 8: Learning to detect false or misleading nonverbal signals is also critical.

Likewise, so-called low-fat 2 percent milk is not really 2 percent fat. Thirty-five percent of its calories come from fat. They can call it 98 percent fat-free (by weight) only because of its water content. Low-fat milk is not a low-fat product at all, and neither are low-fat cheeses and other low-fat animal foods when you recalculate their fat on a per calorie percentage basis. This