#confounded

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. ↗

— Aristotle

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All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#confounded #days #me #neurotic #normal

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it. ↗

— Mark Warner

#come #confounded #cynics #decisions #demand

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them. ↗

— Roger Caras

#confounded #dogs #i #i am #indebted

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#angry #because #become #certain #club

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#behaviour #confounded #distinction #earnestly #i

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#bloody #buzzard #confounded #even #hawk

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. ↗

— Henry Miller

#been #confounded #death #entered #ever

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

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