Confusion Quotes - Page 36

• we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

  Bill McKibben

  Loneliness, Use, Tvs

  Bill McKibben (2014). “The Age of Missing Information”, p.188, Random House

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• There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have.

  Ian Mcewan

  Real, Struggle, Simple

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Simple, Mind, Great Gatsby Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.136, Broadview Press

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• By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  May, Modern, Curious

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• galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello. she looked at him steadily. "where have you been? why did you do this to me?" and she gave dean a dirty look; she knew the score. dean paid absolutely no attention; what he wanted now was food; he asked jane if there was anything. the confusion began right there.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Dirty, Hair

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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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• I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, People, Confusing

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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• Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Literature

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• It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.

  Ian Mcewan

  Life, Real, Simple

  "Atonement". Book by Ian McEwan, 2001.

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• God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.

  Anne Lamott

  Jesus, Crazy, Mistake

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.101, Penguin

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• There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

  John Steinbeck

  Kindness, Effort, Laziness

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.65, Penguin

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• I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Honor, Causes

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• Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, and confusion all over the earth. One master mind is governing the nations. It is not the president of the United States; it is not Hitler; it is not Mussolini; it is not the king or government of England or any other land; it is Satan himself.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Kings, Government, Land

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Dark, Light

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• Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

  Stephen King

  Communication, Self, Doubt

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and in great accomplishment. Remember joy isn't a stranger to you. You are winning and you are strong. Love. Love first, love always, love forever.

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Believe, Moving

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• What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

  Salvador Dali

  Important, Anarchy, Spread

  "Meta-Algorithmics: Patterns for Robust, Low Cost, High Quality Systems" by Steven J. Simske, John Wiley & Sons, (p. 272), May 28, 2013.

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• There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Country, Mean

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.126, Broadway Books

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• It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Frustration, Hands

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

  Trevanian

  Fun, Opportunity, Justice

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.137, Broadway Books

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• Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Desire, Probability

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.32, Publishdrive

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• Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Beautiful, Hate, Cancer

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Worry, Three, Arms

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Magic Study”, p.303, MIRA

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• Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Together, Ugly, Faces

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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