Confounding Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by… — Geraldine Brooks
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our… — Lewis Thomas
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity. — Lindsey Buckingham
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the… — Andrew Jackson
"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law. — Jonathan Swift
We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with… — James Whistler
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods. — Catullus
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities… — Jeffrey Kluger
I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding. — Lucy Lawless
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies… — Homer
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness,… — Shaun Tan
The reality distortion field was a confounding mÃ©lange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose… — Walter Isaacson
The two commonest mistakes in judgement ... are, the confounding of shyness with arrogance - a very common mistake indeed - and the not understanding… — Charles Dickens
The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. — Nassau William Senior
Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them — Jonathan Swift

Who Wrote These Confounding Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Confounding Quotes as follows: