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Quotes About Misconception

You think you've found the perfect mate and you head for him, blinking as fast as you can, and then you find out he's a Bic lighter.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Though Sebastian wasn't looking at her, he could hear the note of childish defiance in her voice, and it caused a wrench in his heart... a heart that he always believed to be nothing more than an efficient muscle.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Tabby didn't mince words when she gave a pointed warning to his fans in the pages of Castle Rock two months after Misery was published: "In some very real way, you, the readers, know this man very well. I would like to suggest that you do not know him at all. In seventeen years of marriage, I am still discovering things I did not know about Steve, and I hope he's still discovering the unknown in me.
~ Unknown
Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
~ Unknown
The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection and mistake in this idea of thinking
~ Loren Weisman
Dain wasn't certain what exactly was wrong with her, but he had no doubt that something was. He was Lord Beelzebub, wasn't he? She was supposed to faint, or recoil in horrified revulsion at the very least. Yet she had gazed at him as bold as brass, and it had seemed for a moment as though the creature were actually flirting with him.
~ Loretta Chase
People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings. John
~ Lori Gottlieb
What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?" She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at him. "It's a shame really. I had nothing else to read. I left all my Barbie comic books at home.
~ Unknown
The stupid girl thinks Muslim is a language.
~ Jill Ciment
But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know?
~ Jill Shalvis
Uh oh. Women and their ideas scare me.
~ Unknown
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
~ Jim Butcher
Not everyone can be equally right, Harry." "But believe you me, everyone can be equally wrong," I said.
~ Jim Butcher
And here I thought global warming was due to cow farts. - Harry Dresden
~ Jim Butcher
When you assume, you make an ass out of you and umption.
~ Jim Butcher
Against the popular misconception, cowboys never did own ranches. They were not much more than the expert, wandering hippies of their day, cossacks of the range who knew animals much better than each other.
~ Jim Harrison
There could be no snake in Quntana Roo's garden. Only later did I see that I had been raising her as a doll.
~ Joan Didion
We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see,we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.
~ Joan Didion
Industry structure is dynamic, not static, a point that Porter has to repeat often because there has been a remarkably persistent misconception that industry structure and positioning are static, and therefore irrelevant in a fast-changing world.
~ Joan Magretta
You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
~ Jodi Picoult
people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
~ Jodi Picoult
On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
~ Jodi Picoult
Things don't always look as they seem.
~ Jodi Picoult
We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
~ Beyonce Knowles