Top 100 Confusing But Quotes
#1. I always thought when I became an adult everything would become less confusing, but unfortunately, everything's only becoming more confusing.
Meg Cabot
#2. 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
#3. I'm pretty confusing. But I do have an oil rig in my back yard.
Amber Heard
#4. Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
Edgar Guest
#5. People choose the most flattering photos of themselves to put on Facebook. Text messages can be vague and confusing. But conversations are confusing too. And some people wear lots of makeup. I think it's just hard to be a person.
Chelsea Martin
#6. Magicians can be confusing, but
when Moses arrives and throws down the rod that becomes a dragon, how do the trick bowls
look then? When something that alive comes, illusory matters fade. They quit bragging!
A body's death, even, is beautiful to those who see with the soul's eye.
Rumi
#7. So even if I'm getting intelligent and learning a lot of new things, he thinks I'm still a boy about women. It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.
Daniel Keyes
#8. I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
Kate Micucci
#9. Perfection: a collection of a variety of pieces that, when viewed and felt individually, are difficult and confusing; but when brought together as one, create a perfect picture. Symphony, harmony, serenity.
C. JoyBell C.
#10. There are many photographs which are full of life but
which are confusing and difficult to remember.
It is the force of an image which matters.
Brassai
#11. Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
Patrick Rothfuss
#12. Today, love came knocking at my window. To share with dad such a confusing, yet wonderful occasion would be great. Still, I keep this to myself. Who knows? In the future maybe dad and I can share more than silence but not until dad allows love to knock for me at the front door.
Anthony Paull
#13. Working in the arts, you see people who come from terrible circumstances and who, for whatever reason, have incredible talent. But of course, with that great talent comes some guilt because, if you come from circumstances that don't encourage it, it can be really confusing.
Jesse Eisenberg
#14. The old life is gone, my days are new,
but time is still a mystery
of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance.
- Rosa
Margarita Engle
#15. Accounting is possibly the most confusing, boring subject in the world, but if you want to be rich long-term, it could be the most important subject.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#16. Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow.
Francois Lelord
#17. Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of bein.
Val Kilmer
#18. Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
Steve Case
#19. Tiny but determined, I navigated the confusing and unstable path of being what you are while knowing that it's more than people want to see. Back
Hope Jahren
#20. The healers' university looked exactly as Tessia had imagined. Her father had described it as an 'old but strange building that has adopted and absorbed surrounding houses as opportunity and funds allowed'. It sounded confusing and intriguing, and it was.
Trudi Canavan
#21. Find out how Claude and Kelly end up from being Friends 2 Lovers as you follow them through their disappointing, confusing, loving, shocking,encouraging, and romantic moments. But can their bond last and withstand all the challenges that cross their way?
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#22. Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
Ze Frank
#23. Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.
Cassandra Clare
#24. How truth and lies seemed black and white, but mixed together, they made everything gray and confusing.
Hugh Howey
#25. You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.
Laura Slade Wiggins
#26. I think it would be very scary and very confusing if I didn't understand where people are coming from, but I've felt the exact same way for so many other bands, growing up. It's not really a big deal.
Jon Crosby
#27. 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.
Enya
#28. I think it was that love that I loved. That kind of involvement was reassuring; I felt it would extend to me, as well. That it did not or that it did, but only as much and no more, was confusing at first.
Amy Hempel
#29. 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
#30. The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.
Nicholson Baker
#31. I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
Yara Shahidi
#32. People always say to be careful not to confuse sex and love, but I think they should be more wary of confusing love and understanding.
M.E. Thomas
#33. The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.
Chris Van Hollen
#34. 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
#35. You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.
Jennifer Pahlka
#36. Dear little ones, I know this might be scary and confusing right now, but my name is Jade and I'm here to help.
Jade Miller
#37. Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.
Tahereh Mafi
#38. Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.
Piper Perabo
#39. Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.
Natalie Zea
#40. Let's start anew. Life is goals
Purpose-Attempts
Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple.
Eugene Mirman
#41. Daughter, that's life: messy, confusing, heartbreaking, but wonderful.
P.C. Cast
#42. I miss him so much, but it's confusing, because I missed him long before he was dead, and that's the bitch of it all. I missed him long before he was dead.
A.S. King
#43. I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.
Emma Watson
#44. Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.
Andrew Cuomo
#45. But sometimes she found that memory confusing and doubted it.
J.K. Rowling
#46. But bid life seize the present?
It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past.
The present
Is too much for the senses,
Too crowding, too confusing
Too present to imagine.
Robert Frost
#47. It's one of those songs that everybody knows, but you are not supposed to do, because everyone does it, only no-one does it, because you're not supposed to do it, because everyone does it....if you follow that....
Gloria Jackson
#48. Yes, no. I don't know. It's all so confusing. I'm just a kid."
Abuelo smiled. "You kept saying that while you told me your story, but what does it mean?"
"That I'm too young to have to be making decisions like this."
"You're never too young to do the right thing," Abuelo said.
Charles De Lint
#49. Oh, Danny, it's so confusing."
"Not really. You're falling in love with him. Or are already in love with him."
"But am I? Or just ... overwhelmed?"
"Love is overwhelming.[ ... ]
Jennifer Ashley
#50. There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
Banksy
#51. But whatever lies beyond ... You've helped me remember why it's worth fighting. Living. Even when the lines get so confusing you think you're losing your mind.
Joey W. Hill
#52. This may seem confusing considering the "swing to the right" this country has taken, but raunch culture transcends elections. The values people vote for are not necessarily the same values they live by. No region of the United States has a higher divorce rate than the Bible Belt.
Ariel Levy
#53. I don't understand you, Pigeon. I thought I knew women, but you're so fucking confusing I don't know which way is up."
"I don't understand you, either. You're supposed to be Eastern's ladies' man. I'm not getting the full freshmen experience they promised in the brochure," I teased.
Jamie McGuire
#55. I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well.
Astro Teller
#56. My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.
Taryn Manning
#57. He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying. Murder, accident, overdose - it happened in many ways, but the end was the same. Something sad and confusing left behind. Only the shape of life, only the empty outline.
William Kent Krueger
#58. [The consumer] shown new styles in the moment, but she's not going to get them for another six months - and I think that's very confusing for her. She feels she's seen it all by the time it comes around. She's also a little bored. She's really into [snaps her fingers],"Wear-now-buy-now."
Donna Karan
#59. Madness is confusion of levels of fact ... Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
William S. Burroughs
#60. My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don't care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it's bad. It's less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing.
Richard Greenberg
#61. People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.
Esther Dyson
#62. At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#63. You're sending some confusing signals." Curran growled deep in his throat. "That's impressive but not really informative, Your Furriness.
Ilona Andrews
#64. Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Jose Ingenieros
#65. Like a book completely intact but missing one word every dozen, making it a miserable and confusing read.
James Dashner
#66. But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.
Madeleine L'Engle
#67. I try to shove this whole confusing mess of emotions into the vault in my head. But either the vault is full or this bundle of emotions is too big or too stubborn or too thorny to shove into the vault.
Susan Ee
#68. But he was calm, like a hunter who is sure that he will catch his prey in the end, however confusing the trial.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#69. Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.
Michael Leunig
#70. I try to cry, and can't, but even with dry eyes it's all so confusing.
Lolita Pille
#71. The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.
Michael Dirda
#72. You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving the problem and correctly formulating the problem. Only the latter is required of the artist.
Anton Chekhov
#73. So confusing. It was some kind of magic, I knew that for sure, but I didn't understand the subtleties of it all. You'd have thought all those years of HBO and shit would have prepared me better.
Red Tash
#74. I can't know if she lied about Sohtyr or not. Maybe she did trick us, I don't know. But what I do know is that I have to go after her." "Damn," Leth said. "It must be so confusing to be you."
V.R. Cardoso
#75. I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies.
Anna Kendrick
#76. I'm not sure what we're doing, to be perfectly honest
but nothing's on fire anymore. And I feel like maybe we've solved something. Even though this is probably just a new problem.
Rainbow Rowell
#77. There's 4,000-plus stocks out there, and sometimes it gets a little confusing. And we like them to start with the portfolio grader, but if they'd like to see how I use the system and pick stocks - we offer that as well.
Louis Navellier
#78. ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
Joe Biden
#79. I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.
Daniel Boulud
#80. Acronyms are hard enough to remember on their own, but when letters aren't acronyms they become even more confusing. For example, neither RT nor ARM is an acronym.
Jeffrey R. Shapiro
#81. I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.
Patti Davis
#82. 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.
Corrie Ten Boom
#83. But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.
Melody Carlson
#84. The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.
Zac Goldsmith
#85. If you are still thinking of yourself as two parts - soul and body, then you will inevitably confuse your psychological reactions with your spiritual life, and this is not only confusing to the understanding, but it can actually, in this very psychological age, lead you into real false teaching.
Dennis J. Bennett
#86. The world is Absolutely Brilliant. Difficult sometimes. Confusing often. But humorous almost always.
Henry L. Walton
#87. It was all very well being a strong independent woman, but it was hard when boys' confusing behaviour kept making you lose your focus.
Holly Bourne
#88. [...] confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever touches.
William Faulkner
#89. I get the concept, all right
like, why would God make me gay and then tell me it's a sin to be gay? But the freethinkers were confusing me. ' I don't get it. They have no religion, but they sort of believe in God, but they don't believe in faith?
Robin Reardon
#90. The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues
it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.
Heidi W. Durrow
#91. Love isn't always clean and pretty--sometimes it's messy, cruel, and confusing. And sometimes, it doesn't turn out the way you want it to. But then, the beauty of love is that it's very strong, and when it's real, it's worth it.
Heather Lyons
#92. How close is the ending, well, nobody knows.
The future's a mystery, and anything goes.
Love is confusing, and life is hard.
But you fight to survive, 'cause you've made it this far.
Adam Young
#93. Try to read books about meditation, but not so many different viewpoints that they get confusing. There is no best way. It's just what works for you at the time.
Frederick Lenz
#94. Many of us, if pressed, would admit that we'd prefer a cash gift to another pair of pajamas or bestselling novel. But giving the green can make even the best of us uncomfortable - the etiquette is confusing, and those who relish picking out the perfect something can miss some of the fun.
Jean Chatzky
#95. Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
Jennifer Capriati
#96. Sometimes you'll have a heckler who's actually attempting to be supportive, but you don't realize it. Their way of expressing it is kind of confusing.
Mike Birbiglia
#97. Tell someone you love them today, because life is short, but shout it at them in German, because life is also terrifying and confusing.
Anonymous
#98. It looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.
Em Bailey
#99. Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions can be more insidious than bronze idols
Alan W. Watts
#100. People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.
Johan Huizinga
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