Quotes About Confusion

I knew him, but I don't understand him.

I murmur something that sounds like "goodbye" but tastes like "hello.

We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

Why do women love bad men? Margaret had asked the question herself, and answered it, in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. The belief that men have "stronger passions," Margaret theorized, has been "inculcated" in women for centuries, and "the preference often shown by women for bad men arises . . . from a confused idea that they are bold and adventurous, acquainted with regions which women are forbidden to explore.

Silence is the cruelest means of rejection, even if it only masks confusion or regret. The

she suffered from an "impetuosity of feeling." The effort to "say everything in a breath" caused her only to "begin at the end, or dash into the middle" of her argument when she felt the pressure to defend herself. The same pressure "gives my voice a tone, which those around me mistake for anger with them; and thus I leave the impression of having a confused head & a bad temper.

Zen: 'I kinda went about it all wrong last night, didn't I? Melody: 'Kinda? It was a total fustercluck.' < actual word used >

All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened; and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.

Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!

What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on here?

Whew, this might be getting a bit confusing. I hope you are following me so far. This is the point in every Theory of Computation course at which students either throw up their hands and say "I can't get my mind around this stuff!" or clap their hands and say "I love this stuff!" Needless to say, I was the second kind of student, even though I shared the confusion of the first.

I look at him. "It's odious," he says. "Detention?" I ask, confused. "Huh?" We have no idea what the other is talking about. "What's odious?" I ask. "O.D.S," he says, pointing to his discman and obviously referring to some dropkick band. Like I really care.

I so don't want to be attracted to him, and the fact that I am surprises me. Sometimes when I get home, I convince myself that I'm just romanticizing anyone who's actually spoken to me, but then I see him the next day and my heart starts beating fast and I can't really kid myself.

And at last Finnikin understood why he had felt so sorrowful and silent these last few days. He knew how to be Finnikin of the Rock to Evanjalin of the Monts. But he had no idea who to be to Queen Isaboe.

I not really sure if we can

but it's not always as set as that. Some things, though, feel like they're right. You and me? It's one of those things. I don't know why they see or why things are such a mess, but in the middle of it all, I do know that being around you is one of tue best things that happened to me in, well, ever.

I'm not happy," she whispered. "I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

You intrigue me, Emily Rodgers." "Well, you baffle the hell out of me, Prince Luc

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

You got kids who act loony and take drugs left and right. They pretend they hate their parents who gave them everything in the world. These kids grow up, and their kids stick earrings in private places and get tattoos all over their bodies and don't know whether to act like boys or girls. They think they love everybody. The truth is they love nobody, including themselves.

Hey Shelly, you're looking at me like I'm from another planet. What's wrong?" "Nothing's wrong. Bubbles sold me alien abduction insurance. I haven't got a care in the world.

Quem confunde céu e água acaba por não distinguir vida e morte.

Afinal, eu estava como dizia o cantador da aldeia: no sossego, sou cego; na timaca (confusão) não vejo

Across that time span "Hoover Dam" and "Boulder Dam" were used interchangeably, the preference often depending on the political leanings of the speaker. The matter generated so much confusion and acrimony that in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1947 a letter writer named Frank Romano Sr. was provoked to propose that the structure in Black Canyon be named "Hoogivza Dam.