Quotes about confused
confused men mind
What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched into the most extraordinary and spectacular fit of coughing which caught Arthur so much by surprise that he started to choke violently, discovered he was already doing it and got thoroughly confused. Douglas Adams
confused mind ifs
If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused. Dale Carnegie
confused play one-day
Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens. Cristin Milioti
confused balance sake
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance. Clark Kerr
confused teaching greatness
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission. Claude Levi-Strauss
confused ishmael ifs
If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael Daniel Quinn
confused community world
The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight Daniel Quinn
confused three woods
I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days. Daniel Boone
confused firsts elude
At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection. Anais Nin
confused color fog
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Chuck Jones
confused rap white
Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused; But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused. Chuck D.
confused rap boys
People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white. Chuck D.
confused teaching way
Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. Christopher Paolini
confused teaching talking
See this pebble?" "Yes." "Take it." Eragon did and stared at the unremarkable lump. It was dull black, smooth, and as large as the end of his thumb. There were countless stones like it on the trail. "This is your training." Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. Now stop talking or we'll never get anywhere. Christopher Paolini
confused believe thinking
I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want. Angie Harmon
confused hate people
People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above. Anne Roiphe
confused differences confusion
PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. Ambrose Bierce
confused party government
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. Alice Walker
confused greed humanity
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. Alice Walker
confused writing knowing
Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim. Anne Lamott
confused order water
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. Alexander Pope
confused fall passion
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. Alexander Pope
confused escalators
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working. Don DeLillo
confused believe reflection
How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing. Duane Michals
confused race space
You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place... Dr. Seuss
confused thinking expression
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling. Dorothy L. Sayers
confused animal heartbreaking
It is heartbreaking to see so many animals in distress through the Gulf Coast region. Many of them are frightened, confused, hungry, dehydrated and lost. Doris Day
confused two president
One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong. Donald Rumsfeld
confused chasing humans
Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other. Donald Miller
confused accomplishment age
Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused. Don Henley
confused eye successful
The more difficult question for me is, do you remain successful for what you had done? I don't know. I think success is in your own eyes. But, I don't really want to ever feel like I've achieved success. Because then I'd be spoiled. I want to feel like I need to keep doing more. Maybe I get "content," "settled," and "success" confused. I never want to settle, but I would love to be content. Derek Waters
confused sacrifice thinking
Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be. Clarence Thomas
confused crazy looks
Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused. Cliff Burton