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Quotes About Confusion

Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
~ William Goldman
That explains it." Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, "That explains it.
~ William Goldman
Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, That explains it.
~ William Goldman
Da che esistono le donne, esistono i parrucchieri, e Adamo fu il primo, benché gli studiosi di Re Giacomo abbiano tentato di confondere le acque.
~ William Goldman
You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does." "How
~ William Goldman
You keep that saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
~ William Goldman
obvious they had not heard the
~ William L. Shirer
So fell, ignominiously, the modern Roman Caesar, a bellicose-sounding man of the twentieth century who had known how to profit from its confusions and despair, but who underneath the gaudy façade was made largely of sawdust.
~ William L. Shirer
History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.
~ China Mieville
It was a very inexact apocalypse.
~ China Mieville
Oh for God's sake," he said. The men and women stared. He could see them attempting exegesis on his outburst.
~ China Mieville
Maybe it was always that way and everyone has always been forever waking in a flustered confusion deep at night trying to believe that the awful sound they think woke them was nothing, or was the nervous bark of a dog, not the sound of violence or of a child weeping in the kind of desolation or terror that demands intervention
~ China Mieville
Mystery Epidemic of Imbecility.
~ China Mieville
I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.
~ Chinua Achebe
If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
~ Chip Heath
Ambiguity does, too. In times of change, you may not know what options are available. And this uncertainty leads to decision paralysis
~ Chip Heath
sometimes in times of change, nobody knows how to behave, and that can lead to problems.
~ Chip Heath
What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
~ Chip Heath
Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time: psychological disorder, social disorder, metaphysical disorder, or physical disorder, constantly happening. If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
They felt that it was overwhelming evidence for something, that it proved something beyond any reasonable doubt, but they were not sure what.
~ Chris Bachelder
Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood.
~ Chris Cleave
your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.
~ Chris Cleave