Mistaken Quotes

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.

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.

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

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

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.

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

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

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.