Confused Quotes - Page 19

• If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

  Steve Coogan

  War, Guitar, Play

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 17, 2009.

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• Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

  Hugh Leonard

  Mad, Silence, Sometimes

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• All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.

  Wallis Simpson

  Laughter, Echoes, Long

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• [T]he more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date recieve the backing of politically powerful groups [...]a renaissance of German quasi-science paralleled the rise of Hitler.

  Martin Gardner

  Powerful, Fall, Groups

  Martin Gardner (2012). “Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I.

  Dennis Prager

  War, Vietnam, World

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• Congress and the American people have good reason to fear that we are heading toward another permanent garrison of Americans in a Balkan country where our mission is confused, and our exit strategy a complete mystery.

  John McCain

  Country, People, Exit

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• Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

  Susan W. Tanner

  Encouragement, Children, Mean

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• Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God gets confused one day? Not all religions claim the direct authority of God speaking to their leader. You know, I'm an atheist, but I'm a Puritan atheist.

  Dave Foley

  Atheist, Leader, Mind

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• We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Smart, Our World, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Mean, Men, Typical

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• The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Fashion, Real, Artist

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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• You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments
  producing a confused agreeable mass
  of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

  Arnold Bennett

  Thinking, Sound, Details

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

  Rakim

  Religious, Religion, Easy

  Song: Mystery

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• Psychologically, I’m very confused… But personally, I don’t feel bad at all.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Feels

  "Fictional Character: Klara Novak". "The Shop Around the Corner", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

  Joan Halifax

  Wise, Suffering

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• Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.

  Dimitri Simes

  Simple, Simple Living

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• confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Ducks, Stunned

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Hands, Long

  William Tecumseh Sherman (2015). “Home Letters of General Sherman”, p.130, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

  John Calvin

  Book, Two, Glasses

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Childhood, Feelings

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• When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

  Dogen

  Moving, Eye, Practice

  "Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries".

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• Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.

  Gregg Popovich

  Years, Two, Stills

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• The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

  Linus Pauling

  War, Problem, Communism

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• The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.

  Porphyry

  Christian, Vicious, Has Beens

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• Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

  Jose Marti

  Reading, Order, Two

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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