Quotes About Misuse

If you misuse the things you have been given, God has the ability to take your talent away. That's the way it is for me and that is why a lot of religious people are grateful to their God.

I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.

For history itself is destroyed, and its comprehensibility—based upon the fact that it is enacted by men and therefore can be understood by men—is in danger, whenever facts are no longer held to be part and parcel of the past and present world, and are misused to prove this or that opinion.

This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

The misuse of the term matriarch has led many people to identify any woman present in a household where no male resides a matriarch. Although anthropologists disagree about whether or not matriarchal societies ever really existed, an examination of available information about the supposed social structure of matriarchies proves without any doubt that the social status of the matriarch was in no way similar to that of black women in the United States.

Never has a book been as sorely misused as the Bible to justify beatings.

The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others who do not comprehend its significance.

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.

We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.

We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions.

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul

The] overuse and misuse of standardized tests is only the start of the problems with NCLB. NCLB uses these test scores to impose sanctions that have no record of success as school improvement strategies, and in fact are not really educational strategies at all. They're political strategies designed to promote privatization and market reform in public education.

If liberty is abused, get ready for an awkward result

My biggest concern is the misuse of science to support policies.

Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

Love, so many People use your Name in vain.

Isn´t it strange how wealth is always wasted on the rich?

malapropism

Any powerful technology can be abused.