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Quotes About Confusion

When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who look and listen to it. She said, In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion. That night I wanted the sky to talk to me.
~ Ishmael Beah
Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.
~ Topher Grace
If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.
~ Robert Pattinson
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
~ Clive James
The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
~ Jimmy Breslin
When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
~ Russell Baker
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.
~ J. B. Priestley
I thought I was in love once, and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.
~ Benton Fraser
Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.
~ Sir Richard Livingstone
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
~ Eric Hoffer
She is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.
~ John Heywood
It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
~ Don Marquis
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
~ David Riesman
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value.
~ Rebecca West
All hell broke loose.
~ John Milton
As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.
~ Tony Evans
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
~ Johnny Depp
Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'
~ Jessica Simpson
Am I eating chicken or tuna?
~ Jessica Simpson
I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.
~ Les Dawson
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.
~ John Podhoretz
When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.
~ Nancy Reagan