Quotes About Misuse

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

loves to distort Scripture so he can use it to curse us.

What remains difficult to fathom is how White, a president of the American Historical Association, justified to himself his grotesquely unhistorical (mis) use of sources—from resorting to the romanticized fictions of Washington Irving for "facts" about Columbus to the strategic truncation of a quotation from St. Augustine to make the African Doctor appear to say something exactly opposite to what he meant.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

The word 'change' has been abused so many times.

There is NO such thing as an Ergonomic (device) anything. I could give the best Ergonomic tool / device in the world and if you use it wrong, you will probably get worse.

CUSTOMER: I cleaned my computer and now it's broken! REPAIR TECHNICIAN: What did you clean it with? CUSTOMER: Water and soap. REPAIR TECHNICIAN: You're not supposed to bring water near a computer! CUSTOMER: I don't think it was the water that broke it. … I think it was the spin cycle!

If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

I happen to like Philippians 4:6, but I also don't like how it is used as a "clobber verse" to make anxious people feel like they're doing something wrong or, even worse, that there is something wrong about them. As with most clobber verses, in this situation it is being used out of context.

Both Hegel and Darwin can be mis-used to support a belief in the "survival of the fittest".

Michael titled his head. "But . . . Uriel, if I were to misuse it . . ." "I would Fall," Uriel said quietly. I choked on the air. Holy crap. The last time an archangel Fell, I'm pretty sure there were extended consequences.

See, that's the tragedy of the human condition. No one wants to be corrupted by power when they set out to get it. They have good, even noble reasons for doing whatever it is they do. They don't want to misuse it, they don't want to abuse it, and they don't want to become vicious monsters. Good people, decent people, set out to take the high road, to pick up power without letting it

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

Everyones entitled to be stupid but you are abusing the privilege.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

The ultimate answer is to use less toxic chemicals so that the public hazard from their misuse is greatly reduced.

The world was too full of wastrels and waifs, sycophants and spies—all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect.

What does it mean to "carry" or to "misuse" God's name? It means committing evil in God's name. And that God will not forgive. Why not? When an irreligious person commits evil, it doesn't bring God and religion into disrepute. But when religious people commit evil, especially in God's name, they are not only committing evil, they are doing terrible damage to the name of God.