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Quotes About Confusion

Still, in summing up the situation, we must not forget that the New Left expresses certain truths and truisms and provides us with not a few straws in the wind. However immature, destructive, sterile, and confused, it is a cry of anguish and protest against a mechanized, profoundly leftish age. It is, in a sense, leftism to end all leftism.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Ivypool felt her mouth drop open "Hollyleaf? But...you you're dead!" "Obviously not," the newcomer replied with an edge to her voice.
~ Erin Hunter
She couldn't figure out whether he really wanted to be with Daisy, or whether he still loved Brightheart and was just being a mouse-brained tom.
~ Erin Hunter
I'm supposed to be this brilliant ThunderClan warrior, from a line of important ThunderClan warriors—so why do I feel so out of place?
~ Erin Hunter
Why can't StarClan tell us something clearly, instead of talking in riddles?
~ Erin Hunter
who still looked as if some cat had hit him over the head with a dead pigeon.
~ Erin Hunter
Is there something wrong with Bramblestar? Rootpaw asked himself. Or is there something wrong with me?
~ Erin Hunter
Upped but mentally disjointed.
~ Beatrice Sparks
I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG 263)
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
to this day, two trials later, Betty still frequently speaks of Dan Broderick, and sometimes Linda, as if they were still alive and well and tormenting her. "He's such a shit!" she exploded one day, nearly fifteen months later, after reciting some past example of his sins against her. "I'd like to kill him!" "But, Betty," her listener replied, "you did." Silence. Pause. Then a small, confused laugh. "Yeah, well … but I didn't get revenge ... he didn't suffer enough.
~ Bella Stumbo
I have noticed that this kind of fanatic, like every other kind, is in two species: the species which too clearly thinks out its own insane theory, and the species which remains perfectly muddle-headed.
~ belloc hilaire ii
It is the plainest and simplest of things that most daunt and confuse us.
~ bellows henry whitney ii
The designer had probably been going for Turkish Bath but had hit Czech Porn Shoot instead.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
I showed her my warrant card, and she stared at it in confusion. You get that about half the time, mainly because most members of the public have never seen a warrant card close up and have no idea what the hell it is.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Vanessa made a strange inarticulate sound common to Germans who've figured out how to start a sentence but don't know how it ends.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
It's because I'm a rat,' he said. 'Isn't it?' 'You're not really a rat,' I said. 'I'm a rat and this is a violation of the human rights act.' I really wish members of the public would bother to read that bloody act before quoting from it. 'No it isn't,' I said. 'Apart from anything else, if you really are a rat, then the Human Rights Act doesn't apply.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Oh shit, I thought, if this isn't the Low King of the Dwarves then I'm the President of the Cricklewood Branch of the Women's Institute.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Now she's caught between What to say and what she really means And I am finally colouring, Inside the lines that I live between
~ Ben Howard
And while he'd never had more than one in a six-week period, he thought he felt one coming on a hundred times a day: whenever he looked away from a light source to find his vision mottled, whenever part of his body fell asleep or felt slightly numb from an awkward posture, on the very rare occasions when he stuttered or grew briefly confused in his speech—terror arose within him. Each false alarm, because it caused anxiety, brought him closer to the real thing.
~ Ben Lerner
CAPTAIN RAMIREZ: "Ootunondumi rabo Caaguazu." FRANCISCO: "Bokinmaginum sinking." RAMIREZ: "Help.
~ Ben Macintyre
Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?
~ Ben Marcus
I kept looking forward the answer to things. I kept looking, and I never saw, and I became lost. I lost myself, lost my own reality.
~ Ben Okri
I went about the market confused by many voices that could have been Mum's, many faces that could have been hers, and I saw that her tiredness and sacrifice were not hers alone but were suffered by all women, all women of the marketplace.
~ Ben Okri