Confused Quotes - Page 5

• The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  War, World, Prove

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• He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

  Maimonides

  Fake People, Fall, Infidelity

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.290, Moses Maimonides

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• As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Actors, Checks

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• I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

  Ernie Pyle

  Peace, Hurt, War

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't

  Tom Berenger

  Kind, Wells, Concerned

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• The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

  Brock Yates

  Confusion, Car, Landscape

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• Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

  Chuck Jones

  Fog, Color, Smog

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• The dictionary definition of a Christian is one who follows Christ; kind, kindly, Christ-like. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation for good, with the right of secession. A Christian anarchist is therefore one who turns the other cheek, overturns the tables of the moneychangers, and does not need a cop to tell him how to behave. A Christian anarchist does not depend upon bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One-Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused, and dying world.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Christian, Men, Dying

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.19, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion. When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority. Therefore the Master steps back so that people won't be confused. He teaches without a teaching, so that people will have nothing to learn.

  Laozi

  Teaching, People, Steps

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• I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.

  David Hockney

  Powerful, Reading, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

  Jonas Mekas

  Country, Real, Culture

  Interview with Peter BogdAnOvich, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• "Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Children, Book, Eight

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• If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond.

  Arthur Quiller-Couch

  Character, Language, Intellect

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• Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that without exception in my forty-seven years experience with them) actually want to help; they take the time to try and get whatever is needed. For free. For anybody.

  Nevada Barr

  Years, America, Desire

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• Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Pain, People, Leader

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• Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

  Errol Morris

  Real, Thinking, Differences

  Interview wih Nick Poppy, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins.

  Errol Morris

  Drama, Two, Differences

  Interview with Nick Poppy, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Mother, Art, Teenager

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Pain, Attachment, Way

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• Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Heart, Ideas

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Confessions”, p.176, Everyman's Library

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• I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.

  Brian Molko

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.

  Laurence Boldt

  Self Confidence, Simple, Giving

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.941, Penguin

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• I think people are fascinated with breasts that bounce. They are so used to seeing fake ones – people are confused.
  My breasts have a life of their own.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, People, Fake

  "Jennifer Lawrence: People are fascinated with bouncy boobs like mine" by Anna Francis, www.celebsnow.co.uk. January 04, 2014.

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• When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Song, Trios, Groups

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• I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.

  Andy Warhol

  Names, People, Giving

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