Confusing Quotes (page 5)

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• fear
• power
• time

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• life
• confused
• look

Look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they really are. Suzanne Collins

• confused
• thinking
• you me

Are they real fires? Or are people just reacting to something? Just because there’s an alarm going doesn’t mean it’s a fire. And I think that people are confusing the two. It’s only a fire when it offends the fans, and the fans turn on you. Tosh has fans, and they get the joke. If you’ve watched enough Tracy Morgan, you let the worst thing go by. When did Tracy Morgan become Walter Cronkite? You have to mean something to me to offend me. You can’t break up with me if we don’t date. Chris Rock

• mindfulness
• childhood
• men

It is the world that shapes people’s minds. It is men who have shaped the world. So women’s minds are shaped by men. From earliest childhood, the world they see is made by men. Now the women lie to themselves and there is confusion and unhappiness everywhere. Ian Mcewan

• grateful
• kiss
• she

Alan had still stopped her in her tracks with one of those slow, devastating kisses at her side door. He hadn't insisted on coming in. Shelby might have been grateful for that if she hadn't suspected it was just part of his planned siege. Confuse the enemy, assail her with doubts, leave her with her nerve ends tingling. Very clever strategy. Nora Roberts

• life
• confused
• she

She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life. Jeffrey Eugenides

• hope
• confused
• hopefulness

When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition. Carl Sagan

• family
• trip
• decision

In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave way to impatience, then furious ultimatums, then ill-advised snap decisions. Neal Stephenson

• confused
• lost
• bending

Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping Nicholas Sparks

• help
• together
• storm

No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm. Slash

• confused
• knowledge
• truth is

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them."--Bishop Colubra Madeleine L'Engle

• confused
• fear
• fun

For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion. John Barth

• kindness
• confused
• effort

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. John Steinbeck

• strong
• heart
• missing

They were gone and I missed them but even so I was very happy. For the rest of my life no matter where on this planet earth I went and no matter how scared or confused I got, I could wait until dark and look up into the night sky and see my three friends again and my heart would swell with love of them and make me strong and clearheaded. Russell Banks

• confused
• findings
• finds

I find people confusing. Mark Haddon