We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
Quotes about mistook (9 Quotes)
The new name caused too much confusion among students and staff. Lots of new students mistook the new portal for the Online College portal.
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
I was a researcher on Friday and Saturday nights, ... but I spent a lot more time there. We were having a heat wave and the office was air-conditioned. They mistook me for a hard worker.
Jim Daly said an after-work beer with bus driver pals in Pilsen nearly got him killed once when dope peddlers mistook him for his brother. Turns out my brother had been there before to buy cocaine undercover, ... Those guys were gonna kill me. . . . It happened one other time at an Irish bar. . . . I told Pat to give me a list of the places he goes so I don't get killed.
I have never owned a gun. I don't carry a gun. I have no idea why the police came to my house and arrested me later that night. I had a cell phone and someone mistook for a gun. Guns are dangerous. You never know when they might go off.
You are learning many social cues and nuances that you didn't pick up on when you were younger, such as irony and sarcasm, and these can work for and against you. At this point in your life, you may misinterpret a comment that was made as a compliment because you mistook it as sarcasm. What your friends say has a huge impact. You are constantly wondering, 'What did he mean by that' or 'How do I look' These feelings are common to everyone but are critical to teenagers because they are torn two ways. It is equally important for you to be an individual and to fit in.
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.