Confusing Quotes

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

One of the things that was confusing about Limp Bizkit to some people is that our tastes were very different.

I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn't really make sense.

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em.

To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

'I beg your pardon?' Alice said with a puzzled air. 'I'm not offended,' said Humpty Dumpty.

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

The one affectation I have forced on the publisher... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

Schizophrenic is the best word - I change from day to day. I can be quite confusing. Indecisive, workaholic, and tired today.

I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.