Quotes About Misconception

Far too often, unbelievers know Christians only for what we stand against, not what we stand for.

Gossip sometimes becomes a reality for some.

You can't change what a person knows, even if it is wrong," the nurse had said.

How old is he?' 'Thirty.' 'He looks older.' 'They all do. All the Europeans look older and angrier than they really are. It's a white thing.

The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.

To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.

Most Americans have little idea of how far our nation's worldwide standing had fallen by the end of the Bush administration; no matter how bad you thought it had gotten, it was worse.

For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

When it comes to Baltimore I want to say that it's actually a lot worse than what you see in 'The Wire.'

If you want to land a punchline for how bad something is, you say 'Detroit,' even, like, in conversation. 'Oh, well, things could be worse. You could be in Detroit.' It makes me so mad.

The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

It doesn't bother me that people think that Blake Shelton made me go country, because I can understand it. My immediate past is pop-rock, and people don't know a ton about me as a kid - yet. They will soon.

As scary as it is, we have to admit that there are folks in the world who only know the Roots as 'the band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.''

A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.

There's the common misconception that restaurants make a lot of money. It's not true. If you look at maybe the top chef in the world, or at least monetarily, it's like Wolfgang Puck, but he makes as much money as an average crappy investment banker.

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.