#confusion

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#anger #attack #bush #confusion #days

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#cultural #despair #emerge #feeling #great

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#confusion #cows #gross #how #humor

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#admitted #am #confusion #ever #every

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. ↗

— Jack Welch

#change #company #confusion #even #into

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ↗

— James Agee

#confusion #consume #examine #mere #my own

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#object #original #original sin #sign #sin

Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. ↗