Quotes about confusion
confusion use tests
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. Rebecca West
confusion delight ends
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. Robert Frost
confusion mind black
A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. Richard E. Byrd
confusion focus want
Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy. Stuart Wilde
confusion people political
Things need to be properly named. Political confusion starts with terminology confusion. Islamism implies some sort of political and social plan for Muslim people. In that classification, we find different categories. Tariq Ramadan
confusion discipline silence
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom. Thomas Merton
confusion secret crumbling
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery. Steven Erikson
confusion tragedy lasts
The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. Shirley Hazzard
confusion mind-blowing dying
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. Terence McKenna
confusion progress reform
The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us. Thomas Jefferson
confusion joy lust
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. Tony Snow
confusion age body
Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. Maggie Kuhn
confusion sin objects
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. Willard Van Orman Quine
confusion people glitter
It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. Zora Neale Hurston
confusion environmental facts
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. Vivienne Westwood
confusion effort poetry
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence. Wallace Stevens
confusion blooming world
For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture. Walter Lippmann
confusion confusing vision
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels. William S. Burroughs
confusion people finding-love
We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love. William J. Clinton
confusion important anarchy
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. Salvador Dali
confusion confusing funny-basketball
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. W. H. Auden
confusion couches levees
O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion. William Congreve
confusion people retreat
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat. Saul Alinsky
confusion age eras
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age. Saul Bellow
confusion achievement today
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious. William Dean Howells
confusion misdirection
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection. Robert Kennedy
confusion suffering truth-is
The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust. Tullian Tchividjian
confusion mind tension
Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension. Sri Chinmoy
confusion hospitality mets
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. Rudolf Arnheim