#confusion

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

#brief period #confusing #confusion #darker #did

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ↗

— Federico Fellini

#betrayed #chaos #confusion #democratic #does

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#business #business model #confusion #delivering #just

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#confusions #doing #down #fiction #how

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#bending #chief #confusion #desire #error

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#brightest #calamity #confusion #darkest #furnace

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#asked #british #british government #chaos #confusion

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#america #around #bush #confusion #depression

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. ↗

— James Thurber

#bound #confusion #kind #lead #minutes

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#america #any #anything #between #called