The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdom, we must nearly always say yes or no...The monastery is a renunciation. Self-sacrifice, even when misdirected, is still self-sacrifice. To assume as duty a strict error has its peculiar grandeur.
Quotes about misdirected (16 Quotes)
Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.
People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
With this complex issue, the devil is truly in the details. Too much of the debate has not been focused on provisions that would bar the courthouse door for many immigrants who deserve their day in court and would require that everyone in the United States who wants to work must apply for 'permission to work' from the government. Congress should not pass a bill until these misdirected provisions are addressed.
These sometimes are the kind of things that cost lives In this case, when we look at the number of abuses of the regulations, plus the fact that people were misdirected people just weren't in tune with proper procedures.
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Mischief just seems to follow wherever Dennis appears, but it is the product of good intentions, misdirected helpfulness, good-hearted generosity, and, possibly, an overactive thyroid, ... The Merchant of Dennis The Menace.
There is a misdirected obsession with weight and weight loss, the focus is all wrong. It's fitness that is the key.
Today we tell all those calling for such ill-conceived talks to please stop their misdirected efforts,
Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.
Why was it expending precious resources hunting for ways that allow operators to use hazardous belt air to ventilate miners' working sections instead of protecting trapped miners For an agency with such a clear mandate as that which Congress wrote into the Mine Act -- to protect and improve miners' health and safety, we ask you to consider how MSHA could have gotten so terribly misdirected.
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
Few things have been as misdirected and counterproductive as all the talk about safeguarding some imaginary European social model. It has created the impression that change and globalization is something that is threatening and dangerous, and that the task of politics is to resist change. It has been truly damaging to Europe as a whole.
I don't think the school board, certainly not the black community, is going to be easily misdirected just because I'm African American. I think that you're not going to decide that everything is fine just because I'm here. I understand that.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another. Accordingly, my principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.