Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felix Klein

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Feist

When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.

Federico Garcia Lorca

At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Jean Vanier

Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Igor Stravinsky

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Howard Gardner

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

He's lost about 25 pounds from last year, so he's made it past nose guards and now he's being confused with linebackers. He's so well put together.

George Bernard Shaw

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

George Bernard Shaw

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Gena Showalter

His frown was less dark and more confused."What's new for you? Dancing?" And so much more, but all I said was, "Yes." "And you let some strange college boy grind all over you for your first time? That's stupid, Ali." NOT GOING TO BE EMBARRASSED, NOT GOING TO BE EMBARRASSED."First, he wasn't grinding on me, and second, you're no better than him." A solid minute of silence, then "You are terrible for my ego, you know that?" I could say the same to him.

Definitely we were a little confused with it. We've never had to look inside with any purpose before.

Sometimes the Massachusetts and New Hampshire (motor vehicle departments), sometimes our paperwork or our electronics get a little confused and we don't actually get them.

Nancy Friday

It was the promise of men, that around each corner there was yet another man, more wonderful than the last, that sustained me. You see, I had men confused with life. . . . You can't get what I wanted from a man, not in this life.

The stock prices (Friday) are telling you two completely different things, ... Investors are very confused what is possible and what is not.

Bernie Sanders

I think what you`ve got are millions of people who are in trouble today. They really are. They`re confused. They`re working longer hours for lower wages. They`re seeing productivity going up but their kids are worse off economically than they are. They`re looking at a campaign finance system in politics and they see corruption, big money buying elections. Nobody in Congress is listening to them.

We were quite surprised and confused by it. It didn't fit our model of what Mars is like,

The public is quite confused over which way to go.

The Fed won't be confused by this, in no way shape or form.

Mahesh Rangarajan

The Congress party is confused particularly in economic decision-making,

Robert McCormick

Information and disinformation has been very confusing for many customers. Some firms have purposely confused the issue." ()

Robert McCormick

Information and disinformation has been very confusing for many customers, ... Some firms have purposely confused the issue.

The numbers (ECI and GDP) are scaring people. People are confused a little bit. Therefore they are keeping their powder dry,

It's cool, but sometimes I'm confused because I don't know how many minutes I'm going to play. The time varies, but at the same time all I can do is stay positive about the situation.

Lee Thompson

It's not impossible and not unusual to have misplaced or confused the two.

Tracy Kidder

I'm sure that many set out for Vietnam feeling confused or unhappy, as adolescents tend to do,

I'm very confused as to what it said, even to this day,

John Fund

That is a judicious way of handling these charges, rather than having them played out on television, where everything gets confused and the trivial gets mixed in with other stuff that is legitimate.

They're going to be confused and they're going to be somewhat upset. Is it going to stop them from flying? No.

They're going to be confused and somewhat upset.

If you get confused listen to the music play.

Lindsey Graham

If you leave us confused about whether or not this is a crime or not, the impact on society is far greater than if you make the decision of -- it is a crime but proportionally ... it would not be a political death penalty case.

Candace Bushnell

Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

James Ellroy

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?