Confusion Quotes - Page 34

• Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.

  Philip Sidney

  Matter, Causes, Moments

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

  Nelson Goodman

  Effort, Obscurity, Rewards

  Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

  Linus Torvalds

  Confusing, Complicated, Excuse

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• We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Realization, Way

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• I'm confused. Really, really confused.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Confused, I'm Confused

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• I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, People, Abiding

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.25, Best Books on

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• At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Devil, Causes, Trouble

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Mind, Enlightenment

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• You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

  Mike Watt

  Style, Punk, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm afraid there's a big confusion in the world between nuclear power and nuclear arms.

  Abdus Salam

  Nuclear, World, Arms

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• Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Writing, Way, Novel

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But, when it comes to global warming, the public- at-large really doesn't know whom to believe anymore. And NASA has contributed to that confusion.

  Walter Cunningham

  Believe, Global Warming, Nasa

  "A Conversation With Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham About A Vital Need To Restore Climate Science Integrity". Interview with Larry Bell, www.forbes.com. August 06, 2013.

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• I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language they'd addressed me in using the same accent that they used. There would be a brief moment of confusion, and then the suspicious look would disappear.

  Trevor Noah

  People, Would Be, Looks

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• A group of four cardinals wrote to [Pope] Francis accusing him of sowing confusion on important moral issues, and they asked for clarifications. He did not reply. And one of the signatories, the American Cardinal Raymond Burke, said if the pope does not clarify, he will proceed with what he called a formal correction of the pope after Christmas.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Issues, Important, Four

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You know, some people say that Cannes is the worst place in the world to see cinema. It's a paradox. They have the new films , lots of interesting films premiering there for the first time. At the same time it's such a mess and a confusion. You have to run from one screening to another.

  Miguel Gomes

  Running, People, Interesting

  Source: www.takeonecff.com

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• Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Exercise, Data

  Source: libcom.org

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• We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense.

  Jerry Garcia

  Real, Confusing, Drug

  Source: medium.com

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• Political confusion starts with terminology confusion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Political, Terminology

  "INTERVIEW: Tariq Ramadan on political Islam's 'necessary crisis'". Interview with Hassina Mechaï, www.middleeasteye.net. April 2, 2016.

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• When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?

  Diane Dreher

  Practice, Conflict, Take A Deep Breath

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• You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Dream, Stories, Passionate

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• dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.

  Maude Meagher

  Country, Dream, Mind

  Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”

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• the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Color, Racism, Denial

  Patricia J. Williams (2016). “Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

  Matthew Underwood

  Passion, Romance, Family And Friends

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I understand that people have a critical mind towards my position. And receive a lot of confusion too.

  Kim Nam-joon

  People, Mind, Position

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Faith, Peace, Ubuntu

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.15, Open Road Media

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