Mistaken Quotes

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Unfortunately, I've never been mistaken as Johnny Depp.

It will never be mistaken for a high school gymnasium or a meeting room in a Midwestern motel.