Mistaken Quotes

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

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

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

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

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

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

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.

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

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

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.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly 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.

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.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

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.