Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

We have not decided yet who we will play and in training we have been mixing the players up to try and confuse the (Perth rugby media) as to what our intended line-up will be.

Alice Walker

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Matt Bennett

We know John Kerry likes fowl. But we were confused if it was hawk or dove. So we decided to send wings,

We were kind of confused on what to do. Everybody wasn't on the same page. We've just got to learn how to finish games better.

Robert Fulghum

And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.

Robert Fulghum

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

Robert Fulghum

Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

Richard Dreyfuss

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

Rene Magritte

Nothing is confused except the mind.

Rene Descartes

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

Thomas Browne

If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

Thomas S. Monson

Christ's peace can permeate any heart - hearts that are troubled, burdened with grief, confused, and pleading for help.

Ray Lewis

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

Raoul Dufy

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

Rick Riordan

The dead are hard to look at. Their faces shimmer. They all look slightly angry or confused. they will come up to you and speak, but their voices sound like chatter, like bats twittering. Once they realize you can't understand them, they frown and move away. The dead aren't scary. They're just sad.

Simone de Beauvoir

The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

Simon Sinek

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

Tim Gunn

Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.

Rush Limbaugh

Liberals correctly perceive the Reagan record as their most dangerous enemy. Why? Because what happened during the 1980s - prosperity at home the longest period of peacetime growth in this nation's history, strength abroad - directly contradicts every liberal belief. Bill Clinton has confused many about the 1980s and the Reagan legacy. His patently false mantra states, "The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. The rich didn't pay their fair share, etc."

Thomas Carlyle

Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

Tony Kushner

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

Steve Burton

There's nothing worse than people who are confused when deciding about something, so hopefully we can clear up any questions folks have. I know a lot of people are confused as to what the options are for White County so if nothing else, we will try to explain the scenario.

Romano Prodi

So when you are faced with a decision on the euro, it is not surprising that many people are confused. They still try to squeeze the euro debate into the old language. But deep down it is a matter of deciding where one's future lies. It is a matter of political will and courage.

Roger Zelazny

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

Stewart Udall

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Solon

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

Sonia Choquette

Our minds are confused, but not our souls.

St. Jerome

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

Thomas Brooks

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

Thomas Szasz

Like Karl Kraus, [Wittgenstein] was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception.

Steven Wright

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused.

Steven Schier

I think things are more confused now than in several years, and I think the reason is that the governor is vacillating on it. He's all for it, but he's not doing anything about it. I am certain that his behavior is at the center of the Twins' frustration.