#mistaken

The moment I heard her name I fell in love. Of course I fell in love with the wrong name, so I made her legally change her name to match that of my love interest. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #mistaken-identity #change

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. ↗

— George McGovern

#how #matter #mistaken #rally #round

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#energy #get #mistaken #passion

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. ↗

— Elihu Root

#cause #honest #honest people #injustice #justice

The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed. ↗

— Charles Rosen

#carries #coming #confidence #contact #conviction

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#comic relief #data #i #i think #mistaken

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace. ↗

— Thomas R. Kelly

#economic #god #loving #mistaken #nature

I pointed to a low bowl filled with what purported to be stew, but then Noah said, “Are you going to point, or are you going to eat?” “I just like to know what I’m putting in my mouth before I swallow.” Noah arched an eyebrow, and I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#mistaken #funny

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#itself #may #mistaken #persecution #piety