Misplaced Quotes

But he wasn't ugly, just misplaced and marked by loneliness. — Sherman Alexie

All that time, my fears - about identity and family and love - were misplaced. It isn't acceptance that extinguishes us, instead, it awakens us. — Eddie Huang

The problem was that I wanted to talk about this and she didn't. The problem was also that I'd somehow misplaced my balls and my spine. — Christina Lauren

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope. — Shane Claiborne

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Man's fatal flaw is misplaced optimism. — Allan Wolf

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement. — Emma Thompson

Mistakes means miss placed priorities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Such misplaced faith in a boy with a murderous past and a girl with treacherous intent. — Renee Ahdieh

It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced. — Anne Bronte

Even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more. — Brandon Mull

She preferred fear to misplaced confidence. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created. — Lawana Blackwell

And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail ... — Bob Dylan

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness. — Thomas Hardy

I think it's not misplaced in 'Doctor Who' to have someone who is little bit edgy and maybe a little volatile and dangerous. — Peter Capaldi

Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars. — Harper Lee

Jenny can still suck a golf ball through a garden hose and she guns my cock like a champ since she misplaced her false teeth! — Tara Sivec

Memories come to mind like excavated statues
that have misplaced their heads. — Wislawa Szymborska

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races. — Tupac Shakur

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest. — Margot Asquith

That's nice, isn't it?" Edith said. "That little kid is so trusting it's kind of holy, but if his trust were misplaced it would really be holy. — Joy Williams

Mistakes means misplaced priorities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory. — Douglas Alexander

With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both. — I.E. Castellano

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced. — Ruby Wax

I seem to have misplaced my heart so long ago and I don't know where to even begin looking for it. — Claire Contreras

Granted, anger can be misplaced and is often destructive, but anger generates passion, and that energy, if used correctly, can be highly constructive. — David W. Earle

It seemed harmless enough until she misplaced her "Dildo" and started calling the neighbors to ask if she could borrow one of theirs! — Mollie Gross

So, yeah, the psychopath might cry when his dog dies and you think that's misplaced because he doesn't cry when his daughter dies." I — Jon Ronson

The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection. — Kay Ryan

It was a simple lesson, really. He could never, ever allow misplaced ideals to seduce him. He would not employ death as a tool. — Bonnie Dee

I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift
to have his love at a time when I've done nothing to earn it. — Emm Cole

Tequila! Would you not think fallen angels would be immune to it."
"Fallen, hate that word! I prefer..misplaced — Paul Guildea

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy. — Zadie Smith

In Dante's philosophy, lust is a misplaced love, but a kind of love nonetheless. For this reason, it is the least evil of the seven deadly sins. — Sylvain Reynard

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of. — Margaret Mazzantini

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead. — Henry Miller

You will be someone else if you did not answer the question "Who am I — Sunday Adelaja

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked. — Rand Paul

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way. — John Otway

I appear to have misplaced the fucks I give for what you think. — Jay Kristoff

I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment. — Colin Farrell

How without mercy and without blame we have all of us been. And how careless to have misplaced so much. — Anna Smaill

Stop admiring the view," he said.
"Critiquing it."
"What do you find lacking? "
"Honor."
"Alas. I must have misplaced it. — Roshani Chokshi

Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material. — Victor Hugo

Despite evidence to the contrary, I hated drinking to the point that I misplaced really big slabs of time. — Augusten Burroughs

This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system. — Paul Hawken

The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows. — Bill Johnson

Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ... because these things are unreliable and fleeting. — Charles Stanley

Andrej thought about it - the notion that the
world was riddled with holes where certain people and animals were meant to be, but weren't. — Sonya Hartnett

There's nothing worse than misplaced optimism. — Charlie Cole

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions. — James Grant

Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny. — Keshia Chante

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates. — David Harsanyi

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. — Dave Eggers

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you. — James MacDonald

Lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced ... that means it's still around, somewhere. — Sarah Dessen

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced. — Winfield Scott

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The war on drugs thrives on ignorance of drugs and misplaced faith in the power of the law to regulate human vice. — Tom Feiling

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to, not from, as we pull our overextended and misplaced creative energy back into our own core. — Julia Cameron

Two words that characterize misplaced worship or lust are secret excess. — Lysa TerKeurst

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine. — Terry Goodkind

Evil is, good or truth misplaced. — Mahatma Gandhi

ROSALIND: I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women. — William Shakespeare

Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it. — Patricia Ryan Madson

You can do everything right and still feel out of place. — Joyce Rachelle

It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way. — Christoph Waltz

Life causes estrangement enough - why do we add to it out of misplaced pride? — Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. — Denis Diderot

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty. — Joanna Lumley

Do you trust me?
The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced. — S.J. Watson

I want you to use your misplaced acorn for a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again. — Scott Lynch

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill) — David Baldacci

When we speak, dress, and think like others, we live with the goal of achieving the approval they have — Sunday Adelaja

A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced. — Rodney Crowell

The easiest way to witness the stupidity and misplaced hopes of all humanity is to watch, for twenty minutes, a human being using a leaf blower. — Dave Eggers

When someone places more value in saving money, than the value they place in saving Life, they have "misplaced" their values. — Donald L. Hicks

An eye here, lips there, all misplaced and disjointed, all make sense. — Samantha Schutz

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right ones a fighting chance- Victoria Barron- dedicated attorney and protagonist of Misplaced — SL Hulen

Beware of your dreams. They can become misplaced lovers. They can become idols. — Phil Vischer

Gregory of Nazianzus was amused by any who would insistently hold "God to be a male" which he regarded as a misplaced analogy. — Thomas C. Oden

Sometimes the only thing that can make someone feel misplaced is the sight of home. — A.L. Buehrer

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section. — Joyce Rachelle

That was the day Alice Mary Love went to the gym and carelessly misplaced a decade of her life. — Liane Moriarty

I wondered when I would stop feeling like such a clueless twit for that misplaced trust. — Tammara Webber