Quotes About Misdirection

It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy. The point that is really at issue remains untouched. Libel settles nothing...

Addie zipped open her computer case, found a USB cord, and tossed it through the back window so it landed on the seat next to him. "What's this for?" Kris asked, holding the cord. Darn. He found it too soon. "Thank you," she said. "I must have dropped it." "You just threw it in.

And some of them got caught in the middle of wrong lives.

Civil servants have an extraordinary genius for wrapping up a simple idea to make it sound extremely complicated.

Answer: The answer is 30. There are two tricks in this question. The first is 1 times 0. This is only a distraction. Yes, 1 times 0 is 0, but that doesn't affect anything else in the equation. The second trick is that the lines ending with 1 don't have a + sign next to them. That means they should be combined with the following line. Here are the numbers, all on one line: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 11 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 11 + 1 x 0 + 1 = ? And the answer to that equation is 30.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

I have a horrible sense of direction.

Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.

Tyranny happens when a society turns against itself, with one part usurping the power of [the] whole and applying it to the exploitation of the rest. Corruption, or misdirection of public effort for private gain, is one common feature of tyranny.... Government through fear is another common feature of tyranny, since it it through fear that one part of society can induce the other to betray its own interests.

as Archbishop of Canterbury John Tillotson later noted,1 "in all probability . . . hocus pocus is nothing else but a corruption of hoc est corpus ("this is the body"), [a] ridiculous imitation of the priests of the Church.

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.

The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

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.

I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Words were made only for babblers, women, and lawyers. Like Bismarck once said: "Words were given to us to hide our thoughts.

On a cloth untrueWith a twisted cueAnd elliptical billiard balls.

When you want someone to tell you something—don't ask, tell it wrong.

Angela was lying to them. Why? Why bother lying when she could have been dismissive? Why say there's nothing about a lock when everything about your voice and body says there was definitely something about a lock, and that the lock was important?

They realized that the best way to mask what they were doing was to hide it in plain sight. Instead of lying about the sweeps themselves, they just lied about what they were sweeping for.

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.