I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'
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