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It`s being here now that`s important. There`s no past and there`s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can`t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don`t know if there is one.

- George Harrison

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we`re on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

- Peter Weir

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

- Robyn Hitchcock

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

- Osama bin Laden

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

- Anita Brookner

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.

- Adam Bullock

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

- Al Ver
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Therefore it would be wrong and misleading to break it up into my thought, your thought, my feelings, these feelings, those feelings.

- Alan Reiter

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

- Albert Sterner

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

- Alejandra Castillo

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw.

- Andreas Koepke

Every day I regret what happened at WorldCom and I accept responsibility for the false and misleading information

- Ann Holt
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We are not the first group to call for impeachment. We have decided to add our voice to the call. All the reasons given for the invasion have shown themselves to be half-truths or misleading. The conflict continues to drag on taking the lives of our soldiers and innocent Iraqis. It is clear that George Bush does not intend to change course in an effort to right this great wrong. He has had enough time in his second term to begin a shift and he has not. It is time to remove him from office.

- Anthony Mix

Oh, I think they`re completely misleading. I think they present misleading information on almost every issue they ran on.

- Antonio Lopes

The Prime Minister`s comments have been unhelpful. He has no more right to call for the Telstra directors to talk up the interests of the company than the Telstra board has a right to talk down the interests of the company. The directors must tell it as they see it. If they are subsequently found to be misleading the market, they will be held accountable.

- Art Laboe

It`s very misleading. It makes people think if I eat this cereal all the time, I won`t have problems with my eyes.

- Arthur Lubow

I wouldn`t think that used car salesmen have any more of a monopoly on misleading claims than financial advisers, ... My advice is don`t believe anybody.

- Ashton Dilka

the segment presented to the American people facts they were free to accept or reject, and that as those facts were presented, there was nothing that was false or misleading.

- Assadullah Azhari

I think it`s unwise and perhaps misleading for me to get into the business of saying we`re considering this person, we`re not considering that person.

- Ayenew Alemeneh

However, this presumed connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism is misleading and maybe encouraging domestic and foreign policies that are likely to worsen America`s situation.

- Babe Parilli

It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of constitutional history. . . . The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson`s misleading metaphor for nearly forty years. . . . There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation (between church and state). . . . The recent court decisions are in no way based on either the language or the intent of the framers.

- Barry Blackwell

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

- Russell Baker

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

- Senator John Kerry