Quotes About Confusion

Much everyday anger results when we confuse our own personal wants with general moral codes.

Les mots n'ont pas toujours besoin d'une destination. On les laisse s'arrêter aux frontières des sensations. Errant sans tête dans l'espace du trouble. Et c'est bien là le privilège des artistes : vivre dans la confusion.

Sa réaction était excessive. En défendant ainsi son territoire avec Markus, elle trahissait son trouble. Ce trouble qu'elle était toujours incapable de définir. Le Larousse s'arrête là où le cœur commence.

Words do not always need a destination. We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings. Running around headless in the vague zone. And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.

Elle veut lui dire qu'on peut être à la fois heureux et perdu.

Au début d'une relation, on pourrait presque analyser chaque baiser. Tout se détache parfaitement dans une mémoire qui lentement progresse dans la confusion de la répétition.

The surrender Jesus invites from us—choosing his will and his life over our own—can never be motivated by anything but love. But we can and frequently do offer a substitute for surrender—something that looks superficially enough like it that we easily confuse it with surrender. We can offer obedience.

V: You were everything to me, Stanley. Everything. S: You still love me? V: It's like a big stone in the road. S: And all those others? V: You know the way a bat bounces sounds off objects to find out where it is?

I felt like a kid at Santa Claus's funeral.

I tend to stumble through life as if lost in a deep forest with an out-of-date map that I can't figure out how to fold. The trees all look familiar, animals are making scary sounds in the bushes and the sandwich in my bag isn't what I ordered. No doubt I'm not alone in this.

Many duct-taper jobs are the result of a glitch in the system that no one has bothered to correct—tasks that could easily be automated, for instance, but haven't been either because no one has gotten around to it, or because the manager wants to maintain as many subordinates as possible, or because of some structural confusion, or because of some combination of the three.

Fascination with the question of social inequality was relatively new in the 1700s, and it had everything to do with the shock and confusion that followed Europe's sudden integration into a global economy, where it had long been a very minor player.

He falls quiet again and tries to understand how he can be saying these things, how it can be that his dark words are coming out into the light and yet he is still alive. At once he storms the doorway that has suddenly opened for him in the endless corridor in which he has been bumping around for years; words spill out, cut off, confused, ashamed, squeezing out.

Senti, forse ti cerco già da anni, ti cerco disordinatamente, a casaccio, e continuo a brancolare. Capisco che ti sto cercando da molto tempo come uno che cerca una finestra in una stanza piena di fumo.

We need structures that don't squash flexibility and creativity but minimize inefficiency and confusion.

CONFUSE the Google Street View car by running alongside it dressed as a house.

My life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. It means nothing.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

El mundo es tal vez el bosquejo rudimentario de algún dios infantil, que lo abandonó a medio hacer, avergonzado de su ejecución deficiente; es obra de un dios subalterno, de quien los dioses superiores se burlan; es la confusa producción de una divinidad decrépita y jubilada, que ya se ha muerto

when the subject takes precedence, you not only start the journey towards a personal style but also you discover the sheer joy of visually responding to the world. It solves a lot of doubts, clears away all confusion. The

Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.

You're the Executive Director of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation - a foundation that says it wants to disseminate scientific information to the community regarding this syndrome but you can't, or won't, give me its signs and symptoms. That is confusing to me. I don't understand why there isn't a list." A Conversation With Pamela Freyd, Ph.D. Co-Founder And Executive Director, False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Inc., Part I, Treating Abuse Today, Vol. III, No. 3.

In the United States, however, we have lost the thread of logic in the stories that we tell.

No, we are in the midst of a broken story, and we have lost the ability to parse its lines.