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Quotes About Confusion

It was as if a deep fog had settled on me and everything around me, and I groped my way from one chore to the next without really seeing anything clearly.
~ Geraldine Brooks
The inability to yield control is often misinterpreted as inability or weakness. Giving up control is often confused with giving up. 223
~ Gerry Spence
You are all a lost generation.
~ Gertrude Stein
Una fuga, ha sido, una fuga. He corrido a través de la vida, sin entender nada de ella.
~ Gesualdo Bufalino
Just as the ripples of a stone thrown into a pond will spread further and further away from the source, so the ripples of the disaster in 1948 hit my parents first and then spread to us and to our children long afterwards. Seeing only the ripples, it was easy to confuse the original cause with its effects.
~ Ghada Karmi
Actors aren't particularly deep thinkers. I'll simply tell the truth. That always confuses them.
~ Gilbert Morris
She just kept on criticizing me, but for contradictory reasons.
~ Giorgio Bassani
Mejor estaría con diablos: de siete veces seis no saben lo que ellas mismas quieren.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.
~ Giulio Andreotti
What IS this place? I have arrhythmia. My arms are prickling. I thought I was so smart. I was going to save the show. But there IS no show! Spider-Man the Musical was never Spider-Man the Musical. I see that now. It's always been nothing more than a diabolical machine built by the gods to teach humility. And I'm trapped in the dead center of its workings .
~ Glen Berger
It is in no citizen's best interest to follow politicians who use panic, confusion, and hastily crafted legislation to enact emergency powers that they themselves barely understand. Panic will not lead this ship to a safer port, only farther out to sea, into far deeper and more dangerous waters.
~ Glenn Beck
Hugo, child, have I ever said that I loved you? Do you know that your fists are clenched? You aren't going to strike me-' She had smiled. Then he had burst into tears. He had never mentioned love either, but it had not occurred to him that it might not be identical with what they had enjoyed.
~ Glenway Wescott
Not even in a movie had I ever seen a wife with a journey of her own. Marriage was always the happy end, not the beginning. It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.
~ Gloria Steinem
It was the 1950s, and I confused growing up with settling down.
~ Gloria Steinem
Îl z?p?cise pur ?i simplu mul?imea aceea nespus de pestri??, de parc? diavolul f?râmase lumea buc??i ?i le adunase apoi la loc, f?r? niciun sens, f?r? niciun rost.
~ Gogol Nikolai
Oh, I cannot understand these points — absolutely I cannot. And the strangest, most unintelligible fact of all is that authors actually can select such occurrences for their subject! I confess this too to pass my comprehension, to -But no; I will say just that I do not understand it. In the first place, a course of the sort never benefits the country. And in the second place — in the second place, a course of the sort never benefits anything at all. I cannot divine the use of it.
~ Gogol Nikolai
First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision!
~ Gordon Dahlquist
When we're drinking the world makes so much sense, but as soon as we sober up it returns to chaos and confusion.
~ Terri Guillemets
Did you think Beauty was so easy and merry a companion? Perhaps you were confusing Beauty with Having a Good Time.
~ Christopher Morley
Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?
~ Author Unknown
Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?
~ Author Unknown
I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
~ Author Unknown
A palace of doubt is senseless, The chambers have no light.
~ Terri Guillemets
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.
~ Samuel Johnson, 1750