Confusing Quotes - Page 15

• You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Quitting, Madness, Mental Health

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Mom, Book

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• It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  People, Complexes

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “A Hero for WondLa”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

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• I can see he thinks he's the ultimate creation, and he seems to believe every woman here is his Eve, created from his ribcage for him to enjoy. I'm both aroused and infuriated, and this is the most confusing feeling I've ever felt in my life.

  Katy Evans

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  "Remy". Book by Katy Evans, 2013.

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• Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it's often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I've often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in - even if it makes you vulnerable - amazing things can and will happen.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Believe, Heart

  "Emma Watson Had Emma Stone Speech Envy Before MTV Trailblazer Award". Interview with Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2013.

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• No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Pain, Loss, Long

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.100, Macmillan

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• If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

  Thomas Browne

  Confused, Taken, Men

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 1

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• Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Knowledge, Self, Confusion

  "Education and the Significance of Life". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1953.

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• It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

  Iris Murdoch

  Sports, Struggle, Gun

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• Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav'n securely.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Learning, Men

  Henry Van Dyke, “Four Things”

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• I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line and plane, if one adds to these all the axioms of groups i-v as characteristics. If one is looking for other definitions of point, perhaps by means of paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then, of course, I would most decidedly have to oppose such an enterprise. One is then looking for something that can never be found, for there is nothing there, and everything gets lost, becomes confused and vague, and degenerates into a game of hide and seek.

  David Hilbert

  Confused, Mean, Games

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• On a psychic level, we could be carrying energies and entities and cravings and habits and confusion and patterns of behavior from generation to generation that we don't want. We could also have picked up loose energies or entities from places we visit or live, and this could be very confusing. It could reinforce or even produce addictions and cravings that don't really belong to us.

  Robert Moss

  Psychics, Confusion, Addiction

  "If You Want To Be A Shaman, Start At The Breakfast Table. An Interview with Dreamer Robert Moss". Interview with Krysta Gibson, nhne-pulse.org.

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• I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.

  Laura Mullen

  Art, Book, Pieces

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [On the Internet and activism:] The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. In a way, the highest purpose of the Internet is to bring us together for empathy and action. After all, the reflector cells and empathy-producing chemicals in our brains only work when we're physically together with all five senses. You can't raise a baby online.

  Gloria Steinem

  Baby, Military, Real

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• wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Jobs, Believe, Reality

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• If there is a lack of specificity in Grossman's description of the town and the walkers, and if the story perhaps sometimes becomes lost and confusing, then it is because the landscape and its inhabitants are really shadows, creatures of an interior world, whose journey and whose quest are within. Falling Out of Time is short, and clearly a deeply personal book, but its importance and impact ought not to be underestimated.

  Ian Sansom

  Book, Fall, Journey

  "Falling Out of Time by David Grossman - review" by Ian Sansom, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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• I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

  Anna Kavan

  Feelings, Curious, Planes

  Anna Kavan, Brian Wilson Aldiss (1990). “My madness: the selected writings of Anna Kavan”

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• Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Girl, Body, Monsters

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• the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of the doctrine has noted, the word has long since ceased to mean, in ecclesial debates, what it meant for Paul himself - which is confusing, since the debates have gone on referring to Paul as though he was in fact talking about what they want to talk about. It is as though the greengrocer treated you to a long discussion of how onions are grown, and how best to cook with them, when what you had asked was how much he would charge for three of them.

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, Talking, Careers

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• Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.

  Bill Gates

  Ridiculous

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• But one thing is certain-in the case of nutrition and health, the science can be confusing and can lead to “paralysis by analysis” (a state in which you take no action because you're not sure what to do).

  Melissa Hartwig

  Analysis, Nutrition, Action

  Dallas Hartwig, Melissa Hartwig (2014). “It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways”, p.23, Victory Belt Publishing

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• The bright side of life's unpredictability is that it's not over until it's over. As dark as the passages and confusing as the cul-de-sacs that you find yourself in are, progress is nevertheless being made. Something is unfolding. You are becoming.

  Marion Winik

  Life, Dark, Finding Yourself

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• Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

  Gloria Steinem

  Emotional, Aspect, Lows

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

  Danica McKellar

  Black And White, Lines, Sometimes

  "Danica McKellar, Olivia d’Abo and Alley Mills Talk THE WONDER YEARS, How the Show Impacted Their Lives, and the 23 Hours of Bonus Features on the DVD". Interview, collider.com. September 23, 2014.

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• If you are aware that people are coming to you to receive your gift and not necessarily to you as the person, it keeps you very humble. Many people make the mistake of confusing the attraction of people to their lives as something that has to do with them as a person or a personality, and this is very dangerous and not true.

  Myles Munroe

  Mistake, Humble, People

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