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Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.


Lindsey Buckingham


#expectations #integrity #maintain #people #way

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

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.


Leonardo da Vinci


#confounds #divided #every #falls #itself

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

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.


Homer


#admirable #confounding #delighting #eye #friends

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


#confounded #contrary #delightful #evil #good

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

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.


Maria Montessori


#child #confound #does #educator #evil

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


Luigi Pirandello


#confounded #drama #philosophy #sir






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