Misnomer Quotes
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Breaking news gently is a misnomer. News doesn't break, people do, no matter how you try to cushion the blow.
— Erica O'Rourke
Maybe we don't recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.
— Jen Hatmaker
Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer
— Errol Flynn
Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.
— Kiersten White
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
— Leigh Steinberg
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.
— Maya Angelou
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
— Thomas Jefferson
The misnomer is that satirists are pessimists, or even misanthropes, but usually it is just a way to unlock human potential.
— Marietta Rodgers
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer
— Mahatma Gandhi
Cicero was nothing if not a genius at character assassination.
— Anthony Everitt
She had taught her son the ability to be, even in the middle of a crowd, somehow comfortably inside himself.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The phrase onenight stand is a misnomer. There is no such thing as a onenight stand. Sometimes, what you do for one night destroys your future.
— Anonymous
Custom makes monsters of us all.
— Ngaio Marsh
Anything short of getting to a place where we can be put up as ambassadors of Heaven is a misnomer.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
The Concept of Internal and External Stressor is a Misnomer. All Stress is Created Finally Through an Internal Mechanism Mediated by Our Thoughts.
— Kiran Dintyala
I've come to believe that the word 'disabled' is a misnomer. 'Disabled' implies that you are broken beyond use. No longer functional. I'm quite abled.
— Ilona Andrews
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
— Jacques Barzun