Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Murdoch

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Imre Lakatos

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

Ina May Gaskin

The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

Igor Stravinsky

We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out.

J. K. Rowling

Harry constantly repeated Dumbledore's final words to himself. "I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ... Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. "But what good were these words? Who exactly were they supposed to ask for help, when everyone was just as confused and scared as they were?

J. K. Rowling

She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.

J. Tillman

I guess with the way that I've conducted myself I'm in the logical spot and I'm fine with that. Even my limited interactions with success have left me confused and bummed out, so I don't think the two can co-exist.

Ja Rule

I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

Gary L. Francione

If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.

Glenn Reynolds

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

Ellen DeGeneres

I wonder what will happen if i put a hand cream on my feet, will they get confused and start clapping?

Ellen DeGeneres

There's lotion for your face, for your hands, for your feet, for your body. Why? What would happen if you put hand lotion on your feet? Would your feet get confused and start clapping? Each kind has something special in it - aloe, shea butter, coconut, cocoa butter, vanilla, lemon extract. That's not lotion. That's one ingredient short of a Bundt cake.

Hugh Leonard

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Samuel Goldwyn

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking

I don't think we can physically match them, so we're going to try and confuse them a little bit,

I continue to be confused on all of this information. But I think everybody agrees that we need more graduate medical programs.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

Hu Jintao

Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

James Dean

If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused, and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything…if I felt that I belonged someplace, you know then…

Jackie Chan

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

Jack White

I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

Neale Donald Walsch

Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

Marcel Proust

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Jose Saramago

The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

Jose Marti

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

Jose Bergamin

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Jorge Luis Borges

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Kevin Bales

Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

An 18-year-old kid can get confused in that situation. It's impossible to go around and tell every player what to do on every pitch. We have to learn as a team that in the late innings, which runners matter and which ones don't, and that wasn't the time to try and make a play.

Hazel Scott

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

Kurt Cobain

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

Kurt Cobain

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.