#mistaken

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#also #appropriation #books #buy #buying

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#dawn #mistaken #sunset

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it. ↗

— Anne Heche

#anything #because #broke #ellen #ever

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#girl #i #kid #mistaken

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#experience #gained #given #how #ideas

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant. ↗

— Richard Masur

#because #deaf #deafness #even #i

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#also #because #become #being #both

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies. ↗

— Black Kettle

#give #here #i #i want you #made

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#believe #congressional #elections #especially #live

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