Confusing Quotes - Page 8

• What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

  Anne Carson

  Book, Adventure, Library

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• The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Men, Expression

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton (Part I: On the Creature Called Man, Chapter VII: The War of the Gods and Demons), 1925.

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• Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Mets, Worst

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.553, Simon and Schuster

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• Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle Monty's reptiles?" Klaus asked. It is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Fall, Sleep

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• Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself? ...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

  Janette Rallison

  Nice, Feel Better, Godmother

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Experts, Should, Repeats

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

  Rachel Cohn

  Romance, Want, Knees

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• Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

  Michael Crichton

  Creative, Trouble, Spiteful

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.194, Vintage

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• In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Moving, School

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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• And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mean, Want, Scream

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Light, Years, Different

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Cat's Table”, p.274, Random House

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• I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

  Norton Juster

  Dog, Scratches, Use

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Are they real fires? Or are people just reacting to something? Just because there’s an alarm going doesn’t mean it’s a fire. And I think that people are confusing the two. It’s only a fire when it offends the fans, and the fans turn on you. Tosh has fans, and they get the joke. If you’ve watched enough Tracy Morgan, you let the worst thing go by. When did Tracy Morgan become Walter Cronkite? You have to mean something to me to offend me. You can’t break up with me if we don’t date.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Believe, Mean

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• There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.

  Erlend Loe

  Sarcasm, Thinking, Ought

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• 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, Insecurity, Overcoming

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• As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.

  Sean Plott

  Nice, May, Be Kind

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2013

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• Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

  Alan Cooper

  Fun, Powerful, Technology

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

  Andre Breton

  Expectations, Confusion, Challenges

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• Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

  Lee Bolman

  Excellence, Nails, Hammers

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• Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.

  Priscilla Presley

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Confusion, Unity, Doe

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• When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

  Don King

  Lying, Boxing, Secret

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• Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Artist, Two

  "Comfort reading: Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.

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• Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Special, Causes, Common

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