#confusion

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together. ↗

— Kate Mulgrew

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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. ↗

— Gary Ross

#anarchy #began #confusion #down #enjoy

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

— James Agee

#confusion #consume #examine #mere #my own

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#confusion #english #force #instead #language

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#certain #confusion #democracy #neat #orderly

Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#appears #between #confusion #fact #news

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant. ↗

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

#called #confusion #entirely #first #good

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#afraid #because #become #before #coming

By now it was too late to call St. Jude. He chose an out-of-the-way patch of airport carpeting and lay it down to sleep. He didn't understand what had happened to him. He felt like a piece of paper that had once had coherent writing on it but had been through the wash. He felt roughened, bleached and worn out along the fold lines. He semi-dreamed of disembodied eyes and isolated mouths in ski masks. He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#identity #dreams

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place. ↗

— Annie Lennox

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