Quotes About Misleading

But a "case" of coronavirus refers only to a positive test result showing someone has been infected. It does not mean that a person will become sick – much less that he or she will be hospitalized, need intensive care, or die. Thus discussing the age distribution of infections, while technically not untruthful, is extremely misleading.

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

My Democratic colleagues, many of whom hold law degrees, should know better than to intentionally oversimplify court rulings to mislead the public and score political points.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

the more uncommon often only mislead us so long as the causes of the more ordinary are still unknown;

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

As he talked, I thought, "Maybe I'm wrong about the guy." Put him with someone like Anna Gunderson, a nice woman who has suffered a great tragedy, and his empathetic side came out. And then I realized he was faking it.

its young soldiers across no-man's-land to be mown down by machine guns. Again and again the newspapers hailed a victory, but the telegrams told another story.

In June of 1944, when Field Marshal von Rundstedt, the German commander in France, was told that the Allies were landing in Normandy, he knew exactly what to do. He went out into the garden and pruned his roses. Von Rundstedt knew that in war, early reports, regardless of whether the news is good or bad, are usually misleading. Reacting to them with instant analysis merely makes the problem worse.

Things are seldom what they seem.

Framed to make women false.

This is the very false gallop of verses.

Vox populi, vox Humbug.

A nice frame doesn't make a nice picture.

even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

As I was discovering, even the most powerful first impressions could mask a very different truth.

They were steak-shaped dog treats, complete with little brown grill lines. I realized at that moment that no dog would know what those grill lines were and that they were purely for my benefit.

It doesn't eat only birds—it mostly eats rats and insects—but they still call it the "Bird-Eating Spider" because the fact that it can eat a bird is the most important thing you need to know about it.

Don't always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

You don't sound like a librarian, she said. I'm on vacation, Jacqueline laughed. Well, I supposed there is an image, isn't there? But stereotypes are awfully misleading. there are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical. Any more than any other profession.

This is great fun,' she said as he gripped her hand, and she successfully hid the agony caused by her fingers and her rings being crushed together. 'It's heaven,' said Christopher. 'No, no, that's not nearly such fun as—just fun,' she said, furtively rubbing her released hand and making a note in her mind not to wear rings next time her strong young friend was likely to say how do you do.