Confusion Quotes - Page 5

• Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Abiding Faith, Anchors, Conflict

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• You should not confuse your career with your life.

  Dave Barry

  Work, Farewell, Careers

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Chance, Invention

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• Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

  Thomas Gray

  Kings, Air, Wings

  'The Bard' (1757) l. 1

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• What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Reality, Suffering Of Others, Personal Opinions

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

  Johnny Depp

  Funny, Confused, Expression

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• Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

  Bertolt Brecht

  Nature, Humanity, Age

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.111, Grove Press

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• Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

  George Santayana

  Order, Names, Mind

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.33, Transaction Publishers

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• Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Failure, Frustration

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.336

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• The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

  Molly Ivins

  Democracy, Beloved, Quiet

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• Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Age, Body, Causes

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  To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

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• Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Strength, Encouraging

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• Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Men, Sky

  "To Catch the Instant", Time Magazine, April 7, 1961.

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• Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

  Michael Stipe

  Confused, Reality, Thinking

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• God is not the author of confusion but is the author of
  peace.

  Quentin L. Cook

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• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Errors, Transition, Decay

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.90

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• In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts.

  Mason Cooley

  Knowing, Location, Exit

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• And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.

  Miriam Makeba

  Believe, Causes, Natural

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• For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

  John Podhoretz

  Tunes, Records, Might

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• In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

  Christopher Wren

  Respect, Confusing, Vices

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• There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion

  Tom Selleck

  Stars, Numbers, Mustache

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• Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Philosophy, Science, Confusing

  Rudolf Carnap (2013). “The Unity of Science”, p.12, Routledge

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• It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

  Sister Parish

  Sister, Husband, Bears

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• Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

  Aristotle

  Spring, Civilization, Issues

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