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Quotes About Confusion

First, I was like, "I know it! It's dun-dun-DA-dun, dun, DA-DUN, dun DA-DUN." WYATT The rest of us were like, "Reese, dude: that's the Darth Vader song." But that got the Darth Vader song stuck in everybody's head. So whenever somebody tried to sing Beethoven's Fifth, it came out sounding like Darth Vader.
~ Geoff Rodkey
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
~ George Bernard Shaw
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
~ George Carlin
Generally when there's a lot of smoke...there's just a whole lot more smoke.
~ George Foreman
Hugh shut his eyes for a long moment. The world was sliding sideways, and he really needed to get a grip. "Who would I be marrying?" "The White Warlock." Hugh's eyes snapped open. "You want me to marry a man?
~ Ilona Andrews
Father, you are sending mixed signals. You dispatched a woman to murder me today and now you're upset about my wedding reception?
~ Ilona Andrews
What in the bloody hell are you?" "Andrea Nash," I said. "This is my associate, Robin of Loxley.
~ Ilona Andrews
I couldn't see Jim's face from all the way up here, but I recognized his pose well enough. It was his "what the hell is this bullshit?" pose.
~ Ilona Andrews
I stared at her, speechless. There were so many things wrong with what she said that my brain experienced a momentary shutdown.
~ Ilona Andrews
This was above my pay grade. I had no idea how to deal with this sort of magic. That was okay. I was a quick learner.
~ Ilona Andrews
How does this even happen? How can someone you love be there one second and then gone the next?
~ Ilona Andrews
She looked left. She looked right. She looked confused.
~ Ilona Andrews
I clawed my eyes open and rolled off my bed. For some reason, someone had moved the floor several feet lower than I had expected, and I fell and crashed with a thud.
~ Ilona Andrews
Quem não sabe o que procura, quando acha não encontra.
~ Immanuel Kant
We have no reason for assuming the form of such a thing to be still partly dependent on blind mechanism, for with such confusion of heterogeneous principles every reliable rule for estimating things would disappear.
~ Immanuel Kant
At noon, in the noisy dining room where Arlette Corail was finishing lunch, some travellers brought news of the armistice. The women burst into tears. It seemed that the situation was rather confused. In certain places the army was still resisting and civilians had joined them. However, everyone agreed that the army had failed and there was nothing more to be done; they had no choice but to give up. The room was filled with chatter. It was stiflingly hot.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Dictatorship is built around this confusion. Napoleon said he only desired the greatness of France, but he proclaimed to Metternich,11 "I don't give a damn if millions of men live or die.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Some people conflate forgiveness with absolution
~ Ira Byock
Was it unpleasant? I don't know, I said. Everything is so unpleasant nowadays it's hard to tell.
~ Iris Murdoch
I could scarcely believe what I saw and I had the sense as in a nightmare of being involved in something both wildly improbable and relentlessly inevitable. This had to happen. Yet how could it have happened?
~ Iris Murdoch
Yet she knew too that she was deeply discontented and she sometimes suffered fierce feral moods of confused yearning during which it seemed to her that her whole life was a masquerade and that she was piously acting the part of a kindly affectionate serviceable woman who was just not herself.
~ Iris Murdoch
And he thought, I shall go on blindly and secretly jumbling all these things together and making no sense of them as long as I live. Maybe every human creature carries some such inescapable burden. That is being human. A very weird affair.
~ Iris Murdoch
I'm afraid you're all mixed up in my mind,' I said. 'I wonder where they are now –' 'Married.' She spoke it as if it were the name of a distant country.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's madness — Madness is where we live now.
~ Iris Murdoch