Confusing People Quotes

#1. It's fun when you're confusing people.

Ashton Irwin

#2. I think one of the great, great problems ... is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.

Cesar Chavez

#3. 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

#4. I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

Marc Almond

#5. Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.

Rowan Williams

#6. Why is everyone calling me Consort?"
"Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh.

Ilona Andrews

#7. 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

#8. 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.

Chris Martin

#9. Conversations sometimes are so hard to follow.
People are so confusing with the wrong facial
expressions for their words.

Tina J. Richardson

#10. There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.

Ian McKellen

#11. Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.

Noel Tichy

#12. I find people confusing.
this is for 2 main reasons.

Mark Haddon

#13. Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you know of your own abilities, you may be confusing applause with achievement.

Joan D. Chittister

#14. Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.

Barack Obama

#15. So this was what being alone was like, she thought. ... It was this wandering in a sea of people with the anchor lifted, and all of it oddly pointless and confusing.

Colm Toibin

#16. It reveals that people are confusing."
Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

Tony DiTerlizzi

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

Fred Durst

#18. People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.

Sam De Jong

#19. Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Norman Vincent Peale

#20. I know a helluva lot.
I'm not the only one who knows these things.
Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem.
My problem is what I am supposed to use it for.
What do I do with it?
It's confusing.

Erlend Loe

#21. A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

Robert Brault

#22. I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

Sting

#23. 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

#24. At times it felt confusing to be surrounded by people, utterly alone and yet aware that God was my companion.

Martin Pistorius

#25. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

Adele

#26. Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.

David Finkelstein

#27. 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

#28. It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

Sally Phillips

#29. Mad is a label we attach to people we find disruptive and confusing.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#30. People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.

Caroline Myss

#31. If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties
or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.

Julian Barnes

#32. I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

Teddy Thompson

#33. People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.

Zach Braff

#34. With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We must work out our own salvation with diligence based on what we believe.

P.D. James

#35. Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#36. The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#37. 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 it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.

Lorde

#38. For a very long time, Viviane and Jack lived in that world people inhabit before love. Some people called that place friendship; others called it confusing. Viviane found it a pleasant place with an altitude that only occasionally made her nauseous.

Leslye Walton

#39. People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

Ed Zern

#40. I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.

John Connolly

#41. 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

#42. Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

Scott Hamilton

#43. I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

Doc Watson

#44. People are confusing. They say one thing and mean the other.

Stephanie Perkins

#45. Distance is confusing," the stranger would tell people, anyone who would listen. "So is time.

Joseph Fink

#46. I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.

Christian Bale

#47. I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity. Let

Leo Tolstoy

#48. Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.

Priscilla Presley

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. When people conclude that anger causes abuse, they are confusing cause and effect. Ray was not abusive because he was angry; he was angry because he was abusive. Abusers carry attitudes that produce fury.

Lundy Bancroft

#52. When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

Alexis Taylor

#53. Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Henning Mankell

#54. Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."

Rita Rudner

#55. I wish we had a system where you are given a bill including service and that people were paid properly so they didn't have to rely on tips. In different restaurants there are different policies and it's all very confusing.

Murray Walker

#56. 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

#57. I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

Mary Timony

#58. Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

Julian Fellowes

#59. We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing.

Michael Davis

#60. There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

Rachel Bloom

#61. It shouldn't make me confused... right!?

- Why I was so fucking confused from my last work!?

People/Emotions and Moments

Deyth Banger

#62. I find people confusing.

Mark Haddon

#63. People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

Jemima Kirke

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. It was confusing pretending to be completely different people, particularly because it had been so long since the Baudelaires were able to be the people they really were.

Lemony Snicket

#67. Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

Kenneth Baker

#68. I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

Selma Blair

#69. 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

#70. Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

James Gray

#71. I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see.
Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.

Anne Lamott

#72. I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Its only confusing if you believe it has to make sense.

Haruki Murakami

#73. Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

Stephen Hawking

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.

Janis Ian

#77. How did people end up confusing the fear of falling to their death on the jagged rocks below with the feeling of being struck by Cupid's arrow?

Sheena Iyengar