Confusions Quotes

42 quotes by 38 authors

The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing… — Norman Angell
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions. — Otis Skinner
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory. — Vernon Howard
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we… — Dean Koontz
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren
... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions,… — Anna Quindlen
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars, and a beachside… — Peter Hessler
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn… — Carl Rogers
Seeing with better eyes We can recognize that the offender is a valuable human being who struggles with the same needs, pressures, and confusions that… — Elbert Hubbard
Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that… — George Saunders
It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when… — Carl Rogers
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr
Iâ€™ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is whatâ€™s unsaid, whatâ€™s underneath. Understanding on another level of being. — Anna Kamienska
My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information. — Marlene Dumas
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how… — Helen Fielding
Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but… — Dogen
A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he… — Roger Rosenblatt
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues. — Aristotle
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a… — Dylan Thomas

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