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"Misdirect" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... constraint, an inner need as fruitful as the outer one is wasteful: there remains the satisfaction in work, the wish to work. However outer necessity, "competition," "minimum of cost," "iron law of wages," call it what you choose, direct and misdirect, through need of bread or greed of luxury, the application of human activity, that activity has to be there, and with it its own alleviation and reward: pleasure in work. All decent human work partakes (let us thank the great reasonablenesses of real things!) of the quality of play: if it did not ...
— Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life • Vernon Lee
... one who thus sins against the Holy Spirit has put himself where no power can soften his heart or change his nature. A man may misuse his eyes and yet see; but whosoever puts them out can never see again. One may misdirect his compass, and turn it aside from the North Pole by a magnet or piece of iron, and it may recover and point right again; but whosoever destroys the compass itself has lost his guide ...
— When the Holy Ghost is Come • Col. S. L. Brengle
... him yet. Not half. If he had as many legs as a centipede he'd still not have one left to stand on when I'm through with him. I doubt he'll have his marrow bones to crawl out on, the way he's crumpling up. Even old Hounslow at his worst can't possibly misdirect the jury, the way I've gummed their noses on ...
— This Freedom • A. S. M. Hutchinson |
Words linked to "Misdirect" : suborn, direct, lead, sensualise, pervert, debauch, infect, subvert, profane, carnalise, demoralise, misaddress, address, demoralize, lead astray, vitiate, conduct, misguide, bastardise, modify, bastardize, change, corrupt, lead off, misdirection, sensualize, poison, debase, alter |
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