Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jon Stewart

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

Josh Groban

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'

John Evelyn

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

John Calvin

For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

John Calvin

Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

Johan Huizinga

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.

Joe Klein

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

George Clooney

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

Lord Chesterfield

History is but a confused heap of facts.

Maimonides

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

Fred Thompson

Study: 60% of young Americans plan to buy firearms. The other 40% were confused, saying they thought they were free under Obamacare.

Haruki Murakami

I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

An 18-year-old kid can get confused in that situation. It's impossible to go around and tell every player what to do on every pitch. We have to learn as a team that in the late innings, which runners matter and which ones don't, and that wasn't the time to try and make a play.

Edward Albee

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

Edward Albee

A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

Eckhart Tolle

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

Hazel Scott

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

John Maeda

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.

It's just not fear and ignorance, obviously that's where hate begins, ... There are a lot of intelligent people, a lot of people who are confused and there are a lot of people who suspect they don't know the real story, and on that I empathize with them.

It's fascinating. These kids do so incredibly well. I just can't even imagine how confused I would be.

It's a significant increase, ... I'm still confused about why it's so significant.

A lot of people confuse us with mall management or the concierge. They think we're part of the mall.

A lot of people, particularly in the past, have confused the video game industry as a technology-based industry. But really it's not, it's about entertainment and what we can do to entertain people using the technology.

They played the two roles of a criminal and an administrative investigation and confused them.

Kyle Orton

They had a great package in, and they're a solid defense. They made the plays, and I got confused on a couple plays.

They do a lot of stand-up, walking around, try to confuse you early,

This evidence is so weak and so fraught with danger to not only confuse the jury but also prejudice the defendant.

Kelly Clarkson

It's very different and I think that's what confuses people and throws people off, but at the same time I like that, because then it keeps you wondering what I'm going to do next.

Lee Thompson

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

It's obvious those opposed to traditional marriage are trying to confuse voters.

There was no intent to confuse or mislead anybody.