Famous Quotes & Sayings

They keep pushing their recommendations as though they are the gospel truth. There is confusion as to all of these recommendations, issued as if they are policy. The Times-Picayune contributes to that confusion. None of this is a given.

Gerald R. Ford

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's not up to GM, it's up to the consumer whether that price holds or not. GM's pricing strategy continues to be a source of confusion for investors.

Jeff Hawkins

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

James Agee

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

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?

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.

Gottfried Leibniz

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

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.

Eric Clapton

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion...

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.

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.

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

At first, there was definitely confusion just because everyone was trying to figure out what was going on. Everyone just immediately started praying.

Eugene Ionesco

The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc

Jan Schakowsky

This mistake is just indicative of the incredible confusion surrounding this program,

Kelli White

There was some confusion on when they are required to notify us of a death.

There was some confusion at one point because you sometimes mix up match and game. I told them we couldn't lose a game or we'd lose our No. 1 power rating. I meant to say match and I said game. They were all freaked out and I just started laughing.

There was heavy smoke and a lot of confusion and very elderly persons laying on the roadway -- eighties, mid-eighties, nineties.

(There was) confusion about what the heck they meant. The market thought it was good (for the U.S. dollar), then they had second thoughts about it.