Confusing Quotes - Page 12

• When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

  Nancy Werlin

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Real

  Nancy Werlin (2011). “Extraordinary”, p.249, Penguin

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• I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

  Stewart Lee

  Creative, Thrill, Way

  Stewart Lee (2010). “How I Escaped My Certain Fate”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Ronda Rousey

  Illegal, Slap

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• I find people confusing.

  Mark Haddon

  People

  Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens (2013). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play”, p.6, A&C Black

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• The confusing lesson whipped Frankie's anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue - the airy feeling of loneliness topped with the hard crisp of injustice. Yet its taste was far from sweet.

  Lisi Harrison

  Sweet, Loneliness, Emotional

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

  Tony Kushner

  Wish, Would Be, Life Is

  Tony Kushner (1993). “Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes”

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• Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

  Rachel Cohn

  Romance, Want, Knees

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• I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Believe, Mean

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• Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish

  George S. Clason

  Simple, Men, Goal

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.

  Erlend Loe

  Sarcasm, Thinking, Ought

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.33, Canongate Books

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• English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

  Bill Bryson

  Latin, Coffee, Writing

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• I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. ...I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.

  Lorde

  Girl, Fashion, Reading

  "Super Heroine: An Interview With Lorde". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.rookiemag.com. January 02, 2014.

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• You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

  Anton Chekhov

  Work, Artist, Two

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

  Sydney J. Harris

  Teacher, Teaching, Boring

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• 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.

  Emma Watson

  Badass, Becoming, Eager Beaver

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• I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

  Adele

  Thinking, People, Want

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• 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

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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• And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Mean, Want, Scream

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Speech, Temples

  Charles Baudelaire, James N McGowan (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.19, Oxford Paperbacks

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• It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moon, Snow, Shining

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”, p.66, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Moving, School

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.148, Scholastic Inc.

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• Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Light, Years, Different

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The Cat's Table”, p.274, Random House

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• I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

  Norton Juster

  Dog, Scratches, Use

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.47, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

  Don King

  Lying, Boxing, Secret

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• The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.

  Blaise Pascal

  Confusion, Unity, Doe

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