Quotes of Misuse - somelinesforyou

“ Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. ”

- Tommy Lasorda

“ Abstinence is a perversion. ”

- Bill Maher

“ Power without abuse loses its charm. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. ”

- Pope John Paul II

“ As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith. ”

- Mark Hatfield

“ America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. ”

- Dick Gregory

“ The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers. ”

- Larry Flynt

“ You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day. ”

- J. Martin Kohe

“ Perhaps the only real failure is that implying waste, a conscious and flagrant non-use or misuse of ability. ”

- Joseph H. Odell

“ Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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. ”

- Philip K. Dick

“ Worry is a misuse of imagination. ”

- Dan Zadra

“ For me it is beautiful that because there is a character in the film that speaks with a Spanish accent, the Spanish-speakers answer to that. The studios know that there is an audience there that shouldn't be misused. They are part of the American melting pot. ”

- Antonio Banderas
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