Confusion Quotes

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.

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

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

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.

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

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.

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.