#misuse

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal. ↗

— Clare Short

#aid #bear #brought #enormous #enormous pressure

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#how #misleading #misused #often #thoughts

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy. ↗

— Chris Chocola

#agencies #billions #bureaucracy #cards #credit

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#like #misuse #patriotism #political #purposes

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture." ↗

— John Cage

#better #culture #distraction #entertainment #listen

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#car #decision #disease #error #front

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#generally #lot #medicaid #medicare #misuse

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children. ↗

— Barney Frank

#authority #between #children #consensual #deep

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#made #merely #misused #necessarily #occasion

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#failure #misused #our #pressure #start