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Quotes About Confusion

He was emotionally worn out from wondering what she really thought of him, and confused by the fact that he cared so deeply about her opinion. And she, maybe, was beginning to think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't. Hiro
~ Neal Stephenson
In layperson's terms: if it has to be dunked in liquid helium to work, I don't understand it. If it's in a rack with fans blowing on it, that's a different story.
~ Neal Stephenson
He doesn't even know what a scupper is, except a modality of vomiting.
~ Neal Stephenson
Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.
~ Neal Stephenson
Most people, on listening to a string of nonsense, will tend to doubt their own sanity before they realize that the person who is jabbering at them is really the one with the damaged brain.
~ Neal Stephenson
Everything felt awkward. There was a sense of being on a perfectly good road in a perfectly sound car that was, however, veering into a ditch.
~ Neal Stephenson
I think I'm in love," she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up. HOW
~ Neal Stephenson
My plan," said Egdod, "is still unfolding. Pent up for so long in the Fastness, I have learned patience. It is a faculty you have lost, ruling the Land from your high Palace where all things come quickly, and you confuse delay with failure.
~ Neal Stephenson
Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to "get somewhere," but having no idea of where they're going.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Fear and guilt, I say again, are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Yet do not confuse the one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
~ Ned Vizzini
My one friend is a screwup—a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it.
~ Ned Vizzini
It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.
~ Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
You know what else I did?' he yelled after me as I left. I fingered her! I turned back to look at him. He made me laugh. He pretended to be so confused and helpless, but maybe he was smarter than all of us. 'The inside of a vagina isn't at all what I thought it would feel like,' he shouted excitedly. 'It feels very organized.' Maybe not.
~ Neil Strauss
All of your emotions are going to try to fuck you up. They are there to try to confuse you, so know right now that they cannot be trusted at all. You will feel shy sometimes, and self-conscious, and you must deal with it like you deal with a pebble in your shoe. It's uncomfortable, but you ignore it. It's not part of the equation.
~ Neil Strauss
The problem is you don't know what your problem is. You think your problem is your main problem, but that's not the problem at all. The problem is you don't know what your problem is and that's your main problem.
~ Neil T. Anderson
And she was interesting, an odd confusion of wit and intense earnestness; a vivid and remarkable person.
~ Nella Larsen
Hi, I'm John. What's your name again? Another Abdul. At some point in the round-robin I got confused and greeted Zamo.
~ Nelson DeMille
the guy from the Midwest goes up to a New Yorker on the street and says, "Excuse me, sir, can you tell me how to get to the Empire State Building, or should I just go fuck myself?
~ Nelson DeMille
Me, Mia. Mama mia, Mia. Otis is rigor mortis.
~ Nelson DeMille
Everybody talks to me about 'P.M.s,'" complained Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn to Inspector Fox on Monday afternoon, "and I never know whether they mean post-mortem or Prime Minister. Really, it's very difficult when you happen to be involved with both.
~ Ngaio Marsh
valley of the clueless
~ Niall Ferguson
a chaos so great and so obscure that nothing about it can be known'.
~ Niall Ferguson
It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.
~ Nicholas Sparks