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Quotes About Confusion

Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more... whoa. What the hell happened to my car? -Melissa
~ Scott Westerfeld
There was a long pause. Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English. The word for what? I just said I don't know it!
~ Scott Westerfeld
When we have lost ourselves, we have lost everything.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing damages the good order of a house hold More than a feud that festers underneath The surface among its master's faithful servants. His commands do not, like well tuned music, Echo back to him in the form of promptly Executed work; no, all is jarring Discord, self-will; in the confusion he Himself's confused and scolds away to no Avail. And
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ak?am, gün do?u?unu izlemeyi tasarl?yorum ve sabah yataktan kalkam?yorum; gün boyunca ay ?????n? bekliyorum, sonra da ak?am, odamdan ç?kam?yorum. ne u?runa uyand???m?, ne u?runa uykuya yatt???m? bilmiyorum.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ich weiss weder dass Tag noch dass Nacht ist, und die ganze Welt verliert sich um mich her
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He had occasion to notice that the enactment and completion of a well-conceived idea is often subject to so many obstacles and so many coincidences that it often threatens to disappear entirely. Just as it seems to vanish for good, in the middle of so much confusion, success seems possible once more, when time, the best ally of an indefatigable perseverance, offers her helping hand.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
and because it is characteristic of our mind to project confusion and darkness where we have nothing but uncertainty.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
daß Mißverständnisse und Trägheit vielleicht mehr Irrungen in der Welt machen als List und Bosheit. Wenigstens sind die beiden letzteren gewiß seltener.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Daß die Kinder nicht wissen, warum sie wollen, darin sind alle hochgelehrten Schul- und Hofmeister einig; daß aber auch Erwachsene gleich Kindern auf diesem Erdboden herumtaumeln und wie jene nicht wissen, woher sie kommen und wohin sie gehen, ebensowenig nach wahren Zwecken handeln, ebenso durch Biskuit und Kuchen und Birkenreiser regiert werden: das will niemand gern glauben, und mich dünkt, man kann es mit Händen greifen.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sucht nur die Menschen zu verwirren, Sie zu befriedigen ist schwer.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What ball?" Selena gasped, truly surprised. He was not foxed, and he was not being blasé. The infuriating man really had no idea what she was talking about.
~ Johanna Lindsey
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
~ John Adams
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
~ John Adams
There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduced to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's a sign our knowledge of them is very small and confused; and when a Mathematical Reasoning can be had it's as great a folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a Candle standing by you.
~ John Arbuthnot
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
~ John Barth
Nobody knew how to be what they were right.
~ John Barth
She wasn't sure what he meant by 'surquedry', other than probably meaning he thought she was a lippy bitch
~ John Birmingham
Confusion of Confusions," written by a plunger on the Amsterdam market named Joseph de la Vega;
~ John Brooks
Pardon,' he said, 'I'm a bit rattled tonight. You see, I happen at this moment to be dead.
~ John Buchan
without a war, America would descend into total confusion and would have to turn itself into a police state to survive, because its people no longer have any internal structure. Americans can never be defeated by war. It is peace they find intolerable.
~ John Burdett
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.
~ John Calhoun
Without Christ, on the   other hand, the whole world is a shapeless chaos and frightful   confusion. We
~ John Calvin