#confuse

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#craving #endorsement #life #should

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#attacked #auditioning #because #been #best

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #around #celebrity #confuse #country

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#confused #emotions #intellect #lie #may

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#defeat #final #never #single

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#get #other #terms #use #way

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#close #confuse #doors #extent #further

If I look confused it is because I am thinking. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#because #confused #i #i am #look

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? ↗

— Robert Adamson

#best #certainly #confused #days #encouraging