Quotes About Misdirection

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

Sorry?" said Dalziel turning. "What's that you said?" He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear. If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained.

In her experience, language cannot be trusted. Words are weapons to be deployed cautiously.

I feel like I'm heading full speed in the wrong direction.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word of it.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what was a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

The world is full of people who can't think straight.

unspecified exhortation, when translated into practice, is always liable to a certain amount of executive misdirection

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.

One of my favourite books about hackers is 'Masters of Deception' about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn't come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected.

A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on their way to New York. Then their captains would stop in Dublin and say, 'Everybody off.' They would leave, and by the time they discovered they weren't in America, they didn't have enough money to continue.

Let's learn to make a speech a day Upon the T.V. screen, In which you never never say Exactly what you mean.

It's fizzing the wrong way!

This began to get interesting. The situation ran away with me, and one lie after another engendered in my head. I sat down again, forgot the newspaper, and the remarkable documents, grew lively, and cut short the old fellow's talk. The little goblin's unsuspecting simplicity made me foolhardy; I would stuff him recklessly full of lies; rout him out o' field grandly, and stop his mouth from sheer amazement. Had he heard of the electric psalm-book that Happolati had invented?

It's the old shell game.

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

Lilia's mother had married the wrong man. It was like boarding a train that never takes you in the right direction, let alone to the destination you have in mind. The farther it travels, the less point there is in going on, and the lesser in getting off.

From what you didn't say, lies that you did say.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees.