Quotes About Misplaced

He often carried a revolver—and often misplaced it, according to Inspector Thompson. From time to time, Thompson recalled, Churchill would abruptly brandish his revolver and, "roguishly and with delight," exclaim: "You see, Thompson, they will never take me alive! I will get one or two before they can shoot me down.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

There was a moment in time when we were filming in London, and we thought someone stole one of the queen's wigs. But I think someone had just misplaced it. It was so funny. I remember it being the most panicked day on set. 'We're missing a wig!'

I have a really terrible sense of direction.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.

Lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere.

You misplaced one of your men," Chad remarked. "I did?" "He'll be along shortly with the baggage. He'll need to be untied.

But he wasn't ugly, just misplaced and marked by loneliness.

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

When the Alvarezes went looking for cores the company had drilled in the area, they were told that they'd been destroyed in a fire; really, though, they had just been misplaced.

The U.S. berates China for its exchange rate policy, which Washington doesn't like. But one-sided pressure on China to change its exchange rate is misplaced.

Why was she so ready to forfeit her own happiness when no one demanded it of her, only her own misplaced sense of duty?

The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place.

The eight sin, deadlier than all- self transcendence through misplaced devotion-is not included in the list.

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, no fine girls just ugly faces.

Oh, Louisa, you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have.

Han ser vad de ser. Någon som inte hör hemma här. Någon som har kommit fel. Någon som har kantrat. Som gått förlorad. Någon som lytt sitt hjärta. Sitt bedrägliga hjärta.

Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

Terrorism is effective because it imposes costs on everyone, not just its direct victims. The most substantial of these indirect costs is fear of a future attack, even though such fear is grossly misplaced. The probability that an average American will die in a given year from a terrorist attack is roughly 1 in 5 million; he is 575 times more likely to commit suicide.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

See? Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You can't lose what you never had.

I had to laugh. I'd set out on this journey home planning to push Billy past the point of endurance, playing on his misplaced feelings of ownership towards me, and five hundred yards from his door I had succeeded.