Top 120 Misused Quotes & Sayings

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

I consider 'groupie' a sexist term, and I think it's misused.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Atheists blame religion when priests do wrong. Anything can be misused, whether it is nuclear power or a matchstick. So, how can I blame religion? Patriotism too can be misused, by misinforming others and eliminating people, so do we start hating the country?

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

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.

'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.

The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can go wrong.

Coward is the most misused word in our society.

Renowned people from all fields receive unnecessary flak so often. Anonymity is misused, and it is a terrible thing to want to break somebody's spirit.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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

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.

Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

The BJP, during its reign, has never misused Article 356.

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.

Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation.

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

If you get it out into the urban field it's going to be used or misused but it'll also probably provide a way of people acknowledging what the aesthetic is about because people have to confront it every day.

Jihad is misused by fundamentalists. The Quranic meaning is not meant for war at all, in the sense of killing.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

Children and other Americans with limited or non-existent credit histories are particularly vulnerable to having the SSNs misused for synthetic identities.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.

I think the media projected the case of Asia Bibi in a right way. They have given the importance of this case and especially how the blasphemy law is being misused for the victimization [of religious minorities].

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.

If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.

It?s not that Monsanto is making money out of the blue. It?s making money by coercing and literally forcing people to pay for what was free. Take water, for instance. Water has always been free. We?ve never paid for drinking water. The World Bank says the reason water has been misused is because it was never commercially priced. But the reason it?s been misused is because it was wasted by the big users?industry, which polluted it.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

There is a strong social premise in our country and I feel today freedom is being misused and not used.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

The Obama administration took a vital national security tool, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and they misused to surveil for political reasons.

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Among the actors, I think my name has been misused the maximum number of times in the industry.

We need to hold accountable anyone who has misused power, and put that power to work for the common good. That includes, but goes beyond, police reform.

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

'Secularism' is the most misused word in the country. Its misuse should come to an end.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.