#mistaken

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. ↗

— Barbara Stanwyck

#egotism #just #mistaken #usually

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. ↗

— Kate Adie

#armed #contrary #danger #escort #even

I only came to serve you, and if you think otherwise, I must let you know that you are mistaken. ↗

— Jonathan Wild

#i #know #mistaken #must #only

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#everybody #except #first #immortality #mistaken

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius

The moment I laid eyes on her I knew she was somebody else, somebody I could love. And since somebody else never showed up, I did fall in love with her. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #mistaken-identity #love

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#forgery #life #love #mistaken #revelation

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#change #era #ever #feel #hardly

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning. ↗

— Alexander Kerensky

#beginning #disillusionment #economic #end #fatigue