Quotes about Misrepresentation

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Hence the German proverb: "All mischief begins in the name of God.

Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

I have often said that there was no cause for feeling disturbed at being misrepresented in the press. It would be only when they began to say things detrimental to me which were true that I should feel alarm.

I have often been characterized by one sound bite, and people say, 'That is the whole of Mike Huckabee, because we have him on this off-the-cuff moment.'

The way contemporary history is told is like a huge concert where they present all of Beethoven's one hundred thirty-eight opuses one after the other, but actually play just the first eight bars of each.

have had to come to grips with the fact that people have lied and will lie about me; they will rip a few sentences out of context, twist a few passages, and make me sound like I believe something I don't because they need something to be angry about and oppose.

You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.