Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nate Lowman

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

We're learning just as much as they are sometimes. Customers are really confused about it too.

Adolf Hitler

The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.

Amy Lowell

This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.

Nandan Nilekani

Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

Lynn Coady

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.

Anne F. Beiler

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

Charles R. Jackson

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

David A. Bednar

The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.

Adam Gilchrist

I'm confused. Really, really confused.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'

Alberto Manguel

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

Albert Einstein

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

Alfred Korzybski

The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.

Albert Einstein

A woman is always Right. But sometimes confused or may be misinformed or rude or stubborn or senseless or unchangeable about her opinions or even down right stupid at times but NEVER wrong... She is always Right...

Tony Campolo

Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.

Valerie June

My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

Marsha Blackburn

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Janet Jackson

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

Janet Jackson

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

Lisa Randall

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

Hillary Clinton

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.

I am really confused about what is going on.

I'm all for a new senior center. But I'm a little confused as to how we can allocate funds to a private organization in this case, and not for another,

Robert Thompson

No one would ever likely confuse reality TV with Masterpiece Theatre.

I don't want the public to be confused about these names. I want the public to be focused on what this person looks like and (on) as much information as we can tell them about his habits.

Eric Allman

From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to have problems.

I feel confused about the influence of a computerized society, where there's instant gratification at every level.

I don't even know why I'm sitting here in fifth place in the ACC having to defend anything. I'm really confused about that. Matter of fact, I think we need six or seven teams.

I discovered a rare man. In days of confused identities, this man knew who he was. Nothing could deter or confuse him. ... This man lived his whole life fighting for freedom.