Quotes About Confusion

Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.

It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.

Because this principle is so important, and because Arjuna is so very likely to lose his tenuous grasp on it, Krishna reminds him over and over again throughout their dialogue. "The disunited mind is far from wise," he nudges. The mind "must overcome the confusion of duality.

Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said.

The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what I know myself to be." The self says merely, "I am.

He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Genetic palaeontology brings clarity to a field of near-medieval confusion. The

The free exercise of religion was another matter. Delegate Samuel Johnston described a proposal requiring each member of the legislature to take a test oath swearing "that he believed in the holy Trinity and that the Scripture of the Old Testament was written by divine inspiration. This was carried after a very warm debate and has blown up such a flame that every thing is in danger of being thrown into confusion."185 But a watered down sectarian test oath was finally adopted as Article

A loon thought he was Frank Sinatra and every time Frank came on TV or radio the loon would go mad, impostor!

She sat in a secluded room, she was mad, but she could not accept it; so she was neither sane nor insane. She could not be either until she knew herself, so in limbo she must die. She kept stuffing toilet roll into her mouth. They found her choked to death!

I know what my decision is...Which is not to decide.

Here's what happens if one repeatedly "applies the model"—at each step adding the word that has the top probability (specified in this code as the "decision" from the model): What happens if one goes on longer? In this ("zero temperature") case what comes out soon gets rather confused and repetitive:

The subterranean lair of the wily human relationship: a dark maze of pop-up demons, fun house mirrors, spooky dead ends, multiple false bottoms.

Why am I covered in feathers

Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul

The fact is, I am scared to death of women. They are an inscrutable species. I don't understand them. In my opinion, any guy who claims he understands women is either a fool or a liar.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Military history is rife with examples of generals and presidents who squander strategic advantage by failing to press a battlefield triumph to its conclusion. Here was the same story again, involving not only complacency but also inexplicable strategic judgment, fractured decision making, and confusion.

As McChrystal took the lay of the land, "I felt like we were high-school students who had wandered into a Mafia-owned bar."34

See confusion as confusion. Acknowledge suffering as suffering. Feel pain and sorrow and divisiveness. Experience anger or fear or shock for what they are. But you don't have to think of them as evil - as intrinsically bad, as needing to be destroyed or driven from our midst. On the contrary, they need to be absorbed, healed, made whole. (15)

The biggest mistake we make in confusing a concept with Reality is in … the separation of self and other.