Confusing Quotes - Page 5

• You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

  Jennifer Pahlka

  Thinking, Government, Citizens

  "With New Funding and Fellows, Code for America Looks to Scale Civic Innovation Across the Country" by Alexander Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions.

  Simone Elkeles

  Hate, Lines, Emotion

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many photographs which are full of life but
  which are confusing and difficult to remember.
  It is the force of an image which matters.

  Brassai

  Matter, Remember, Photograph

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• Sometimes being me is very confusing.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Being Me, Sometimes

  Elizabeth Scott (2008). “Bloom”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• You are confusing plumbing and love again.

  Robin Hobb

  And Love, Plumbing, Love Again

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.574, Spectra

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• Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.

  Maureen Johnson

  Kissing, Forget Everything, Awkward

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• Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world-just no more confusing than any other.

  Alex Garland

  Dream, Perspective, Waking

  Alex Garland (2004). “The Coma”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

  Price Pritchett

  Life, Pain, Struggle

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• There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Information, Overload

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• Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

  Douglas Adams

  Lovers, Plates, Print

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• Don’t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That’s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasn’t it?” “No,” I said. She raised an eyebrow. “It must be. If you had admired any other qualities you would have developed them in yourself, wouldn’t you?” Which was really too much. I put my hands on my hips. “Aren’t fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?” She rolled her eyes. “No, you’re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.

  Janette Rallison

  Mother, Nice, Eye

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

  Dan Simmons

  Memories, Emotion, Driven

  Dan Simmons (2009). “Olympos”, p.74, Harper Collins

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• I know a helluva lot. I'm not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It's confusing.

  Erlend Loe

  People, Use, Problem

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• If she’s out here and not locked up in the barracks, I’ll know,” he said. He took a deep breath and whistled. “You share a whistle?” Trevanion said in disbelief. “Do you have a problem with that?” Finnikin asked. “I have a few whistles,” Lucian murmured. “Very confusing sometimes.” “Whistles are meant for combat,” Trevanion said. “Not wooing women. Women do not understand whistles.

  Melina Marchetta

  Problem, Sometimes, Share

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.264, Penguin UK

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• Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Real, Details, Elimination

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.22, Hudson Hills

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• One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.

  Elif Safak

  Mistake, Acceptance, Past

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• Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

  David Levithan

  Would Be, Complicated, Togetherness

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• 'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Fighting, Thinking

  Alan H. Cohen (2011). “How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World”, p.19, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.

  Joost Meerloo

  Freedom, Mind, Individuality

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• 'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air.
  'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

  Lewis Carroll

  Air, Confusion, Pardon

  Lewis Carroll, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (2014). “The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll With All the Original Illustrations + The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll: All the Novels, Stories and Poems: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland + Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There + Sylvie and Bruno + A Tangled Tale + What the Tortoise Said to Achilles + Puzzles from Wonderland + The Hunting of the Snark and much more”, p.195, e-artnow

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• Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh.

  Ilona Andrews

  People, Laughing, Calling

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.86, Penguin

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• Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Smile, Fangirl

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.149, Pan Macmillan

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• When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

  Herbert Spencer

  Knowledge, Men, Order

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “The Study of Sociology”, p.242

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• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

  Charles Dickens

  Change, Caring, Men

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit ... With a Frontispiece, from a Drawing by F. Stone”, p.180

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• When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow

  Jeff Allen

  Dance, Technique, Different

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