Confusing Quotes - Page 7

• Once the reader firmly grasps the truth of human exceptionalism under our Creator God, then the answers to confusing cultural issues begin to be clear.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Creator God, Issues, Answers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.

  George Michael

  Ideas, Perspective, Tabloids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's a confusing, tough thing. I mean, I can imagine in this situation. Being a single dad myself now and trying to do the right thing in your children's eyes and in the eyes of your friends and family and all that and then at the other end of the spectrum, you're also trying to date and you want to be yourself and you want to let go.

  Chris Harrison

  Letting Go, Being Yourself, Dad

  Source: blogmytv.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, Vanity, Wind

  4 Copy quote

• The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Years

  4 Copy quote

• The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis of the meaning of particular words occurring in certain assertions.

  John Searle

  Analysis, Speech, Certain

  "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Taken, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.369, Penguin

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find the whole concept of being 'SEXY' embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me- dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini skirt, BUT THATS NOT ME. I feel uncomfortable. I'd never go out in a mini skirt. Personally, I don't actually think it's even that sexy. Whats sexy about saying, 'I'm here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I've got?' My idea of sexy is that less is more. The LESS you reveal the MORE people can wonder.

  Emma Watson

  Sexy, Thinking, Hair

  42 Copy quote

• There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean, they're lovely, but so many people are affected by different people and different things in such different ways. And yeah, it's immeasurable.

  Emma Stone

  Art, Mean, People

  "Extended transcript: Emma Stone". www.cbsnews.com. February 12, 2017.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

  Evan Esar

  Sound, Experts, Knows

  15 Copy quote

• People don't necessarily want to step away from what they think they know of you. Getting to know this whole other persona and all of the things that come along with that, it can be confusing for people.

  Demetria McKinney

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Echoes, Autism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

  Victoria Moran

  Long, Devil, Body

  4 Copy quote

• That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

  Chris Abani

  Growing Up, Believe, Loss

  10 Copy quote

• A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

  Max Levchin

  Mistake, Engineering, Classic

  6 Copy quote

• The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.

  George Michael

  Fake, Said

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

  Tavares Strachan

  Way, Human Experience, Make Sense

  "Tavares Strachan's Desert Explosion". Interview with Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.

  Ellen Willis

  Real, Moving, Loss

  "How Now, Iron Johns?". "The Nation", December 13, 1999.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like I need to look like that if I want to be a success. Never. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it. And I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

  Adele

  People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We scientists have way too much a tendency to simplify problems. I guess it actually comes to us naturally. Take the simplest unit, separate out all the confusing, external factors. Study it. Make sure you understand it. And in psychology that means the person studying the individual. But if you want to study our social nature, if you want to study processes that will lead to war and peace, you don't learn all that much by looking at the single individual. A lot of the important things are emergent facts about us, things that you can only see when you get a lot of us interacting.

  Jonathan Haidt

  War, Mean, Psychology

  Source: bigthink.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

  Julian Fellowes

  Friends, Mistake, People

  4 Copy quote

• I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever fell underground. Kraftwerk...it was really mixed. Quite confusing, I suppose, but it just felt good.

  Jez Williams

  Joy, Passionate, Youth

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Israel is very confusing because it seems to be a Goliath, and in some ways it is, when you look at the tanks versus the Palestinian boy. But deep down, when you look at the big map and the big picture and the big history, we are really a David. We are a David with some megalomaniac ideas who thinks he's huge. But we're not. At the end of the day, Jews as a people are an endangered species. One cannot overlook this dimension.

  Ari Shavit

  Boys, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

  Vaclav Havel

  Wise, Language, Nonsensical

  56 Copy quote

• If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

  William Safire

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  29 Copy quote