(696 quotes found)
“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion”
Jack Kerouac
“The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.”
James Agee
“In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word”
Walt Whitman
“At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
W. H. Auden
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood”
Henry Miller
“Times 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.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
Baruch Spinoza
“Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.”
Kin Hubbard
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