confusion quotes

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I got this powdered water – now I don’t know what to add.

The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Sometimes I don’t use the words ‚will‘ and ‚want‘ in the right way. The German word ‚will‘ is the English word ‚want,‘ so that’s a little bit of the problem.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

I live on a one-way street that’s also a dead end. I’m not sure how I got there.

We live in a bewildering world.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.