Quotes of: Confusion Keyword

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

Love

My mistake was to confuse a destiny to love with a destiny to love a specific person. It was the error of thinking that Chloe, rather than love, was inevitable.

On Love

Hello, Mary.' It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away.

Mary Bennet

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

Meditation for Beginners

Somehow," she said coldly, "you have confused profitable and not profitable for right and wrong. I, however, have not.

Ship of Magic

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

A Storm of Swords

…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

The best defense is a confusing offense.

Still Sucks to Be Me: More All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton Smith, Teen Vampire

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

Tales from Earthsea

She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That’s a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

Ticket To Hollywood

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

Thérèse Raquin

It’s a new subject to me, and I’m just starting to get confused. The middle is the muddle, and the end is enlightenment. The subject is love, and the end is death.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

The Unity of Science

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

Zen in the Art of Writing

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.

Jung Chang

In time we all search for something to ease the confusion. Some find hope in a bottle and some find hope in a heart, we are not to judge, for we have never walked their path.

Nikki Rowe

I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

Olivia Williams

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

Patricia Heaton

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

Piper Perabo