Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

Jef Raskin

I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency?

Gary Ross

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Garry Winogrand

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

Frank Sinatra

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

Euripides

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Jeff Hawkins

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

Giulio Andreotti

Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.

Hannah Arendt

There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

Hannah Arendt

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

Franz Kafka

Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

Brace yourself as a wave of earnings estimate revisions and lots of confusion may be headed your way. (In) the near term, the impact may be painful.

Richard Bausch

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

Someone said the score was wrong. That kind of stopped the game and there was some confusion and that kind of stopped their momentum.

So the tragedy was doubled, ... They're telling ... their school teachers, and he's able to profit from the confusion of the situation and probably was emboldened by that.

Death to a godly man is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but to a wicked man it is an east wind, a storm, a tempest, that hurries him away in confusion and amazement, to destruction.

Techs were hot and everything else was not on confusion about the future of interest rates. When the interest-rate picture is cloudy, the focus turns to earnings. And earnings in the tech sector have been good.

It was very quiet. There was a lot of confusion over exactly what the government is talking about in terms of whether they are going to start cutting taxes.

I understand they're frustrated with the confusion over the days. However, the worst thing that happened is they got an extra day of school.

Mary Young

This year, because of all the talk about avian influenza, people seem more eager to get flu vaccine. I'm not sure if there's confusion about the two, or if they just understand the seriousness of influenza.

We simply want to put to rest the misinformation, the confusion that has been raised.

There's obviously a lot of confusion at the start of any major new program, but the real test will come in 9 or 10 months when seniors have made the selection of a plan and some of the initial kinks have been worked out.

There's not just confusion between the U.S. definition and everybody else's definition of torture, there's profound confusion within the U.S. government.

Bode Miller

I skied the way I hoped would reflect a positive objective. There's a discrepancy there. There's a moment of confusion and disappointment, but my objective criteria was satisfied.

I'm guessing in all the confusion there's probably some houses that got deleted.

The noise and customer confusion following all the acquisitions is quieting down.

After this meeting we will definitely know. There will be some clarity. There is a lot of confusion that went around yesterday.

It's never happened before. I guess there was a little confusion on everyone's part.

There's been a lack of consistency in the guidance provided by some of the bellwethers, and there is some confusion for investors,

Gilbert K. Chesterton

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Jay Chiat

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

Moby

My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.

Kurt Russell

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.