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Quotes About Misguided

Have you no sense? Poor misguided men, such shouting—why this public outburst? Aren't you ashamed, with the land so sick, to stir up private quarrels?
~ Sophocles
A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
~ Rudyard Kipling
We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly—like eating pleasant poison.
~ John Piper
So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW, and
~ Elizabeth Wein
The beer got him, and, for a moment, a rush of idiot compassion urged him to hug a pinch-faced man in brown overalls who sat on a stool surrounded by primitive paintings of Jesus engaged in various farm chores (milking a cow, driving a tractor, killing a hog), but the desire to comfort the untalented, the misguided, left Wally before he could act.
~ Ellen Datlow
It was wrong. It was like arresting the gun for murder.
~ Ellery Queen
Jihadis want to watch the world burn, to bring everything crashing down, to destroy the establishment and rebuild it after their own pitiless vision. This misguided utopianism is what makes them such effective bogeymen.
~ Deeyah Khan
I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
~ Walter Cronkite
In high school, I was an absolute derelict.
~ Kevin Parker
We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.
~ Michael T. Flynn
In anthropology terms, this superficial mimicry is called a cargo cult, a reference to the misguided worship of abandoned airplane landing strips among tribes hoping for the goods that airplanes had delivered to return.
~ Scott Berkun
For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.
~ Mark Twain
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
What in Satan's slightly misguided obsession with Journey happened to this office?" Astrid demanded
~ Stephanie Rowe
Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.
~ Stephen King
Some people are just wrong every time they open their mouths.
~ Jonathan Gash
there is no bigger destroyer of creative potential than the misguided decision to persevere.
~ Eric Ries
In the late 1990s, Mugabe's misguided policies sent our economy and agricultural productivity, our country's lifeblood, plummeting into the abyss. To make up for the financial shortfall, his regime attempted to print its way out of the mess, immediately resulting in inconceivable hyperinflation, topping out at 231 million percent.
~ Roy Bennett
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
~ Walter Becker
The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!
~ Amanda Schull
You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!
~ Eileen Wilks
Heil Hitler, Y'all
~ Matt Fraction