The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
Tags: Attempt, Consume ✍ Author: James AgeeA perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Tags: Means, Problem ✍ Author: Albert EinsteinConfusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Tags: Age, Opinion ✍ Author: Albert EinsteinPerfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Tags: Age, Means ✍ Author: Albert EinsteinConversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
Tags: May, Religion ✍ Author: Dalai LamaOn two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Tags: Put, Wrong ✍ Author: Charles BabbageFurthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Tags: America, Lack ✍ Author: Irving BabbittTruth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Tags: Error, Truth ✍ Author: Francis BaconThe interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
Tags: Between, Old ✍ Author: John C. CalhounSome respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.
Tags: Blessing, God ✍ Author: John Nelson DarbyIt is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Tags: Enough, Goal ✍ Author: Rene DaumalI pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Tags: Pretty, Try ✍ Author: Johnny DeppI think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Tags: Silence, Speech ✍ Author: Federico FelliniInstead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
Tags: America, Success ✍ Author: Ernest IstookThe thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Tags: Democracy, Quiet ✍ Author: Molly IvinsShe was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Tags: Good, Short ✍ Author: Clive JamesI had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Tags: Anybody, Except ✍ Author: Jack KerouacAnd I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.
Tags: Keep, Natural ✍ Author: Miriam MakebaConfusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Tags: Order, Word ✍ Author: Henry MillerI don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
Tags: Humor, Today ✍ Author: Bob NewhartThe one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.
Tags: Life, Writing ✍ Author: Conor OberstIt has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.
Tags: Husband, Woman ✍ Author: Eli PariserI never wanted fame, of all things, and I'm not just being cheeky. There are benefits that come with being famous, but there's also confusion. It's important to make sure your feet stay on the ground.
Tags: Famous, Wanted ✍ Author: Grace ParkVisit partners pages
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
Tags: Original, Word ✍ Author: Willard Van Orman QuineI personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.
Tags: Days, End ✍ Author: Mary Lynn RajskubWe need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.
Tags: Above, Urban ✍ Author: Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsChaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
Tags: Minds, Order ✍ Author: George SantayanaFiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.
Tags: After, Hard ✍ Author: Kurt WaldheimGod endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
Tags: God, Happen ✍ Author: Mo YanAn advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Tags: Business, Percent ✍ Author: Fred AllenThe use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
Tags: Done, Mistakes ✍ Author: Aldrich AmesThere is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
Tags: Sometimes, Time ✍ Author: Barbara AmielAt one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.
Tags: Society, Time ✍ Author: Rudolf ArnheimPeople, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
Tags: Beauty, Become ✍ Author: Richard AvedonI keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.
Tags: Creative, Keep ✍ Author: Joy BeharVery rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.
Tags: Done, Song ✍ Author: Brandon BoydThe mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
Tags: Poetry, Try ✍ Author: Basil BuntingMixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
Tags: Feelings, Soul ✍ Author: George CarmanLogic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
Tags: Philosophy, Problems ✍ Author: Rudolf CarnapPeople look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
Tags: Between, Philosophy ✍ Author: John CheeverI am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.
Tags: Christian ✍ Author: Kristin ChenowethOne is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.
Tags: Business, Thought ✍ Author: Jay ChiatTimes of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Tags: Great, Greatest ✍ Author: Jessi ColterGandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
Tags: Government, Means ✍ Author: Stafford CrippsThose who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.
Tags: Moral, Understand ✍ Author: Bob DoleTis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Tags: Desire, Lives ✍ Author: Sarah FieldingHistory and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Tags: Experience, History ✍ Author: Gerald R. FordThe Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.
Tags: End, Jesus ✍ Author: Ed GillespieGrief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
Tags: Hopeless, Sense ✍ Author: Anne GrantI believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.
Tags: Emotional, Experience ✍ Author: Brian GreeneI don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.
Tags: Cause, Riots ✍ Author: Tom HanksIt is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
Tags: Artist, Whatever ✍ Author: William Ernest HenleyIf the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'
Tags: Belong, Spiritual ✍ Author: Tom HiddlestonA superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Tags: Simple, Thought ✍ Author: Johan HuizingaIt was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
Tags: Body, Nation ✍ Author: Zora Neale HurstonI'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.
Tags: Fact, Seems ✍ Author: Jon JohansenGetting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
Tags: Control, Life ✍ Author: Larry KingNature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Tags: Artist, Nature ✍ Author: Paul KleeConfusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
Tags: Makes, Put ✍ Author: Lenny KravitzBerlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.
Tags: Struggle, War ✍ Author: Diane KrugerWhen I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
Tags: Beauty, Pain ✍ Author: Annie LennoxFamily traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.
Tags: Family, Help ✍ Author: Joe LiebermanI noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'
Tags: Hard, Someone ✍ Author: Demetri MartinIt is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
Tags: Possible, Thought ✍ Author: Alice MillerConfusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
Tags: Darkness, Light ✍ Author: John MiltonI feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.
Tags: Creates, Minds ✍ Author: Brian Molko'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'
Tags: Body, Diet ✍ Author: Mike MorenoIt's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
Tags: Together, Work ✍ Author: Kate MulgrewI think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Tags: Human, Themselves ✍ Author: Steven PinkerFor the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
Tags: Might, Show ✍ Author: John PodhoretzBe able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news.
Tags: Between, Opinion ✍ Author: Marilyn vos SavantThe first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Tags: Art, Good ✍ Author: Friedrich SchleiermacherThere was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion.
Tags: Star, Time ✍ Author: Tom SelleckThe idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of foods that you eat, the frequency of the foods that you eat, you can keep your metabolism revved up.
Tags: Diet, Keep ✍ Author: Ian K. SmithWhen a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Tags: Knowledge, Order ✍ Author: Herbert SpencerMy earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Tags: Today, Unhappy ✍ Author: Adlai StevensonFrom the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.
Tags: Light, Moment ✍ Author: Max StirnerSixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
Tags: Lead, Thinking ✍ Author: James ThurberEconomists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
Tags: Life, Science ✍ Author: Vivienne WestwoodIt is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.
Tags: Far, Insecurity ✍ Author: William H. WhartonI 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.
Tags: Children, Friends ✍ Author: Olivia WilliamsI wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Tags: Character, Great ✍ Author: Jeanette Winterson